spn S2 reaction

[pocochina]

THESE KIDS. MY HEART. I BLAME YOU ALL FOR MY ~PAIN.

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[pocochina]

ahaha, I was just thinking about this very topic yesterday, you read my mind. Because as of thus far, at least - I get the frustration? I do. (I mean, Sam's had way more women fridged for him than Dean, and had that be a much bigger part of his narrative, but who's counting? orite, I am.) But yeah, he's very sympathetic to me, and I kind of bristle at the idea that that's me being manipulated, rather than understanding and on some level relating to the character.

I feel like - Dean does a lot of co-opting other people's pain. But he clearly does that as a coping mechanism to deal with all his child solder trauma? I'd agree with frustration with the narrative, that it feels like it has to make him sympathetic by casting him into that kind of paternalistic role. But yeah, I wince a little that somehow that becomes "well, clearly his trauma and disempowerment has nothing to do with his emotional problems and so they are gross and 'problematic,' BECAUSE PRIVILEGE." He might bother me eventually, though I don't see him having the Angel-type victimizer pain that is what really tends to set me off, but as of now I really don't take issue with Dean himself.