"glory always makes the blood of women flow."

[prozacpark]

I generally don't like ranting about things I dislike (because ranting about things I like is just so much more fun). But. Unconditional Supernatural love just sets me off.

This site is wondering if Supernatural is as good as Buffy. And, um, no? A world of no, even. How can anyone even compare something as misogynistic and sexist as Supernatural

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[meganbmoore]

What about blaming the fans and the writers?

[prozacpark]

I'm blaming both! But, I sort of blame the writers more? I mean. Okay. The fangirls are idiots. You have the women hating fangirls in every fandom, but you don't see all of those fandoms killing their women to please those idiots.

I possibly need to watch the "Bella Bites It" episode in its entirety, but I'm sort of intrigued by the subtext in the scene you linked me to after it first aired? Like, the writers know that she's getting the short end of the stick, but they just don't care enough to make it better. Which pisses me off more than anything.

Really, if the show sticks with its own thing, it will eventually attract people who don't hate women. But as it is, it's a never-ending cycle of suckiness.

Randomly, have you seen the third season yet?

[meganbmoore]

NO! The show and I are officially broken up until it learns how to keep non-evil vaginas attached to living women around for more than a few episodes.

And yeah...why is it that this show seems to make all decisions based on the rabid, vocal minority, when most writers know that it's best to just ignore them?

[prozacpark]

You mean you won't watch the last Bela episode with me so we can be appropriately bitter about it? :)

Exactly. And this is why I almost totally blame the writers for this crap. They created a universe that sustains itself by deaths of women that then serve to motivate the heroes. The premise is problematic to begin with, the fangirls don't help, and the writers aren't aware of the gender issues at all so they don't see the problems there. I mean, why couldn't Jessica have had some tragedy in her past that compelled her to persuade Sam to go on a mission with her brother that she could've joined them on? Why did she have to die to motivate Sam? This show's definition of heroism excludes women from it, and that disturbs me.

[meganbmoore]

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I could possibly be persuaded to watch the ep with you.

[prozacpark]

So, um, tomorrow night? You know you want to. ;)

[meganbmoore]

Will be at work. Also at parents, so I can't DL. Sunday?

[prozacpark]

Sunday should work. I shall find us some links. :)