Fandom can kill me sometimes
Warning: The following addresses my own opinion on the whole misogyny debate about Supernatural. I don't want to offend anyone, merely just express my opinion. If you'd like to respond with a difference of an opinion, go ahead. Just be civil please.
Look, I understand that season 3 inspired a fire throughout people about the mistreatment of women in that entire season. And that season 4's opening recap showed a bunch of beat up girls. I can see that.
Maybe I'm just not sensitive enough to it. I don't know. But I don't pay attention to that. When the season 4 opener played, I didn't even notice that women were mostly getting beat up or smashed or whathaveyou. I just like to be more realistic than sensitive - that yes, they are women out there who are evil and are bitches. I use that word all the time. I like to see both sides, not just strong female types all the time. Obviously, there's more to the misogynist argument than that but that's not my point.
My point is the one thing that does bother me. It bothers me that these people make assumptions about those who don't believe the show is misogynistic. For example, I've seen people wary about how widely received Castiel was within the first episode and think that's so coincidental that Castiel's a male who can be slashed with Dean and people wouldn't warm up the angel if it was a girl and etc, etc, etc.
And I don't think that way. At all. When I first saw Castiel, I didn't think about how he was a new slash pairing to squee over - I love their interaction, hell yeah, but I don't think they should jump each other's bones. I didn't even think that he was hot at the time until I saw more of him in other episodes; then I couldn't help but swoon.
But yeah, I liked him from the get go. Because he brought something new; he symbolizes a new twist to the story. Yeah, he was mysertious in the kind of way that I was like, "This could be an awesome story line that I can't wait to hear." And Misha Collins blew me away. And still does with the episodes so far.
My apologies if that somehow places me in line with thousands of other fangirls wqho have thrown themselves at Castiel while screaming obscenities at the other female characters.
And I bet there are plenty more people who feel the same way I do.
As far as Ruby and Bela goes, I don't like them but I don't not like them. I came into this fandom a little late ('Ghostfacers' was my first episode) so I didn't even know who these girls were. And when I found out more about them, I just wasn't falling all over them. I chalk that up to bad writing - it happens.
And no, I don't like the new Ruby and while I think Cortese is rather wooden in her acting, I think that there's something more to the fact that Ruby's playing nice and am curious as to what happened. It's just not selling it to me right now.
Do I think that people shouldn't have the right to complain? Of course not - in fact, I encourage it. You absolutely have the right to. But here's the key: Do something about it. Write a letter to the writers and/or Kripke. Explain why you're upset. Please do something just to at least say you tried, otherwise you're just allowing it to continue. It's kind of similar to someone choosing not to vote when they can and yet complain about who the new president is.
Trust me, if any of you send a letter, it's not going to make a difference to me. I probably won't even notice if the writers take heed and tone it down - I'm clueless that way. I have faith in the writers that they can do that without ruining Dean or Sam's character - they've done it before.
But I'm just tired of the wank. And the angst about it. And the assumptions that just because I'm not sensitive to it, doesn't mean I'm a mindless babbling fangirl who hates whatever actress they bring on.
I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and hope that this rights itself. But I can really only hope. :/
Look, I understand that season 3 inspired a fire throughout people about the mistreatment of women in that entire season. And that season 4's opening recap showed a bunch of beat up girls. I can see that.
Maybe I'm just not sensitive enough to it. I don't know. But I don't pay attention to that. When the season 4 opener played, I didn't even notice that women were mostly getting beat up or smashed or whathaveyou. I just like to be more realistic than sensitive - that yes, they are women out there who are evil and are bitches. I use that word all the time. I like to see both sides, not just strong female types all the time. Obviously, there's more to the misogynist argument than that but that's not my point.
My point is the one thing that does bother me. It bothers me that these people make assumptions about those who don't believe the show is misogynistic. For example, I've seen people wary about how widely received Castiel was within the first episode and think that's so coincidental that Castiel's a male who can be slashed with Dean and people wouldn't warm up the angel if it was a girl and etc, etc, etc.
And I don't think that way. At all. When I first saw Castiel, I didn't think about how he was a new slash pairing to squee over - I love their interaction, hell yeah, but I don't think they should jump each other's bones. I didn't even think that he was hot at the time until I saw more of him in other episodes; then I couldn't help but swoon.
But yeah, I liked him from the get go. Because he brought something new; he symbolizes a new twist to the story. Yeah, he was mysertious in the kind of way that I was like, "This could be an awesome story line that I can't wait to hear." And Misha Collins blew me away. And still does with the episodes so far.
My apologies if that somehow places me in line with thousands of other fangirls wqho have thrown themselves at Castiel while screaming obscenities at the other female characters.
And I bet there are plenty more people who feel the same way I do.
As far as Ruby and Bela goes, I don't like them but I don't not like them. I came into this fandom a little late ('Ghostfacers' was my first episode) so I didn't even know who these girls were. And when I found out more about them, I just wasn't falling all over them. I chalk that up to bad writing - it happens.
And no, I don't like the new Ruby and while I think Cortese is rather wooden in her acting, I think that there's something more to the fact that Ruby's playing nice and am curious as to what happened. It's just not selling it to me right now.
Do I think that people shouldn't have the right to complain? Of course not - in fact, I encourage it. You absolutely have the right to. But here's the key: Do something about it. Write a letter to the writers and/or Kripke. Explain why you're upset. Please do something just to at least say you tried, otherwise you're just allowing it to continue. It's kind of similar to someone choosing not to vote when they can and yet complain about who the new president is.
Trust me, if any of you send a letter, it's not going to make a difference to me. I probably won't even notice if the writers take heed and tone it down - I'm clueless that way. I have faith in the writers that they can do that without ruining Dean or Sam's character - they've done it before.
But I'm just tired of the wank. And the angst about it. And the assumptions that just because I'm not sensitive to it, doesn't mean I'm a mindless babbling fangirl who hates whatever actress they bring on.
I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and hope that this rights itself. But I can really only hope. :/