i just wanna be a woman

[musesfool]

shaggydogstail articulates my problems with last night's episode in a pithier way than I managed.

sistermagpie also has a good post discussing the gender issues present in the episode.

Comments

[madeline871]

I don't think it would have been right to portray Becky's character as anything more than what it was. She's a fangirl who writes Wincest and squees like the best of them. It makes the fact that she's the one who came up with the lead on the Colt that much better. I've always believed part of the reason Sam and Dean make some of their biggest mistakes is because of the lack of a consistent female perspective in their lives. I'm not necessarily talking about a relationship either.

Without question there should have been more females in this episode across the board (I love the idea of a female Chuck by the way) because you can't tell me that there wouldn't have been girls there dressed up like Mary Winchester, Ellen, Jo, Bella AND Ruby at a real Supernatural convention. I was annoyed by the fact they had a female dressed up like Bobby that was a female, wasn't it? and another one, if I'm remembering it correctly, blond hair falling all over her suit and she role played as one of the brothers in a hunt. Hell, they could've even

[spectralbovine]

but the ghost was going up in flames because Demian and Barnes salted and burned him.)
I thought he was slicing them with iron, just like Sam did. The graves hadn't even been dug up by then. The flames were later.