Don't just wank, do something about it!

[pen37]

Yes, I get it.  Sam and Dean and Kripke and Ben and Sera and all the rest are racist, misogynist jerks, and the show was better in season one, and you hate the mythos, and you want to get back to good old fashoned case shows and you hate angels

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[pen37]

If you are doing something about the problem, then this post isn't aimed at you. I'm just tired of folks who endlessly complain, and then do nothing.

The world is so friggin' full of real problems. I just get tired of people getting so wrapped up in the show and complaining loudly when they wouldn't lift a finger to support causes that draw awareness to the real thing. God forbid they get their hands dirty.

[pen37]

You have a point on the 'dean is a dick' thing. I guess I worry that Kripke is going to become so super aware of fandom that all we're going to get is Sam N' Dean fight the monster of the week who used to be a male white laywer who deserved it.

Or worse, he'll give us what we want in such a twisted way that it'll collectively make fandom cringe. (You don't like Bella, kids? Okay, she's gone. But Ruby is posessing her corpse. And Sam is sleeping with her. Muahaha!)

[pen37]

thanks

[roguebitch]

Hm.

Reflections on my interpretation of things I see on the show in *my* journal are not necessarily wank. They are just reflections on the show. In my journal. Which you are not obligated to read.

And as this is *your* journal, you are certainly entitled to post your thoughts, but don't think for a minute that just because I or anyone else is talking out loud about these issues doesn't mean we aren't doing anything else about them.

My opinion counts because it's *my* opinion, money or letters notwithstanding. And living your truth is just as valuable as any money donated.

[pen37]

I never said you didn't have a right to your opinion. And I never said that you don't have the right to voice it in your own journal.

I'm just saying that if you're going to complain about what you see on the show, do a little something about the real life problem to make the world a little better in some way.

Donate a dollar to feed a homeless kid in africa. Drop fifty cents into a salvation army bucket.

Fill the world with postive things and try to make it a better place.

[roguebitch]

Okay, so if I can't *afford* to donate a dollar to the ACLU/a homeless kid in Africa/a woman's shelter (does volunteering at coalition against sexual assault for three years count?) does that mean I don't have a right to voice observations of inequality?

Observations are not complaints. Expressions of discomfort are not complaints.

And while I agree that speaking truth is not perhaps *as* constructive in an active sense as your suggesstions, it does help to raise awareness of things that might have flown totally under the radar. Awareness is the first step to taking action.

Living my truth, raising my daughter to be a strong woman, these aren't positive actions in real life?

*shrug*

[pen37]

I'd say that rasing a child is the highest calling. And I'd say that volunteering does count.

My whole point was that so many of the people that I see complaining are doing so just to complain.

In general, I'm a little bit confused at fandom. We've got a show that is actively violent. Filled with guns. And consistently does not show children in a good light. Why is this okay when the rest is not? Why are people picking and choosing what to complain about?

[tinylegacies]

OMG thank you for saying this.

I'm soooooooo tired of watching the show and going "Oh, man, there's gonna be wank about *that*" because the scrutiny has gotten ridiculously out of hand.

[pen37]

*nods*

[tygermama]

I really do love you for posting this, TV shows are TV shows, and, yes, they are a reflection of society, they are also entertainment, they should be taken with a grain of salt.

I don't envy you the bomb you just set off though.

*crosses fingers for you*

[pen37]

Apparantly I did set off a bomb. All my point was, was that if you're going to complain, do something positive as well.