Sexist Supernatural? No statistical evidence for that!
All right.
I've ranted a bit last post about the "reviewers" who claim Supernatural to be so against women that they always kill them, daring to even sometimes use the term "misogynistic".
Which I never thought was true and never even SAW, having me sometimes doubt that the people even watch the show. At all.
So, since that difference in views wouldn't leave me alone, and apparently I'm not the only one (just look at the older post by corbyinoz here that says basically the same thing, I've dug up my rusty old excel-skills and, based on the amazing Table of Death on supernaturalwiki, made some charts.
I admit, there's still some work to be done. I've yet to sort the evil people into "big evil" and "henchmen-evil", and I probably did some angels a disservice with calling them "evil" when they weren't REALLY evil, just on another side as the Winchesters. But I had to simplify.
In the same simplification-process, I didn't count EVERY death. When there was something like "10 shop-customers" in the ToD, and it wasn't specified, I just didn't count them at all. And if there was "10 male demons", I counted them as one. Same for female, of course.
I've also constructed the classification of "jerk", which is for people who are ... well, jerks, but aren't outright evil. Lester Morris, who made a crossroads-deal to have his wife killed by Dean is a perfect example for the classification of "jerk". He's not EVIL... but clearly not a good guy either.
I didn't count the many deaths of Sam and Dean and Castiel, and Bobby was also counted only once. Death isn't yet confirmed DEAD, and I don't believe he can be killed, so I'm not counting him. Benny, so far, is dead (double-dead ;-) ) because he's not been seen since his last death. If he appears again as not-dead, I'll remove him from the list.
So, now I present to all: the facts!
- in the whole show Supernatural, there were 238 dead females vs 612 dead males.
- of these dead females, 90 were "evil", 9 were "jerks" and 139 were "good guys".
- of these dead males, 269 were "evil", 65 were "jerks" and 278 were "good guys".
- that makes for 4 % female jerks vs 11 % male jerks; 38 % female evils vs 44 % male evils and 58 % good females vs 45 % good males.
For those who (like me) love pretty pictures, here're some cool charts. Yay.
I've ranted a bit last post about the "reviewers" who claim Supernatural to be so against women that they always kill them, daring to even sometimes use the term "misogynistic".
Which I never thought was true and never even SAW, having me sometimes doubt that the people even watch the show. At all.
So, since that difference in views wouldn't leave me alone, and apparently I'm not the only one (just look at the older post by corbyinoz here that says basically the same thing, I've dug up my rusty old excel-skills and, based on the amazing Table of Death on supernaturalwiki, made some charts.
I admit, there's still some work to be done. I've yet to sort the evil people into "big evil" and "henchmen-evil", and I probably did some angels a disservice with calling them "evil" when they weren't REALLY evil, just on another side as the Winchesters. But I had to simplify.
In the same simplification-process, I didn't count EVERY death. When there was something like "10 shop-customers" in the ToD, and it wasn't specified, I just didn't count them at all. And if there was "10 male demons", I counted them as one. Same for female, of course.
I've also constructed the classification of "jerk", which is for people who are ... well, jerks, but aren't outright evil. Lester Morris, who made a crossroads-deal to have his wife killed by Dean is a perfect example for the classification of "jerk". He's not EVIL... but clearly not a good guy either.
I didn't count the many deaths of Sam and Dean and Castiel, and Bobby was also counted only once. Death isn't yet confirmed DEAD, and I don't believe he can be killed, so I'm not counting him. Benny, so far, is dead (double-dead ;-) ) because he's not been seen since his last death. If he appears again as not-dead, I'll remove him from the list.
So, now I present to all: the facts!
- in the whole show Supernatural, there were 238 dead females vs 612 dead males.
- of these dead females, 90 were "evil", 9 were "jerks" and 139 were "good guys".
- of these dead males, 269 were "evil", 65 were "jerks" and 278 were "good guys".
- that makes for 4 % female jerks vs 11 % male jerks; 38 % female evils vs 44 % male evils and 58 % good females vs 45 % good males.
For those who (like me) love pretty pictures, here're some cool charts. Yay.