Two extra thoughts about 5.17

[ratherastory]

Back home, and I think LJ is letting me post again...

So why is it that when SAM wants to have a normal life and a family, it's wrong and selfish and hurtful to his family, but when DEAN wants it everyone goes "AAAAAAAWWWWW!"

Is it because Sam actually tried to get it for himself, whereas Dean is apparently willing to throw himself on the proverbial grenade? What?

The double-standard makes me sad.

:(


Also, I am SERIOUSLY ANNOYED by the Whore of Babylon thing. Come on, SPN. You can stop being so blatantly misogynistic any day now. :(

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Is it because Sam actually tried to get it for himself, whereas Dean is apparently willing to throw himself on the proverbial grenade? What?

I don't know, but it irritates the heck out of me.

Also, I am SERIOUSLY ANNOYED by the Whore of Babylon thing. Come on, SPN. You can stop being so blatantly misogynistic any day now.

Is it misogyny if it actually exists in the Bible? The show didn't make that shit up. I can understand that they might by misogynistic in other cases, but I didn't get the complaints this time around. Folks get irritated when the show doesn't properly follow the apocalyptic stuff in Revelation (the whole anti-Christ child thing hit people wrong, if I recall correctly, and also the prophets in the SPN-'verse) and the get annoyed when SPN actually does follow Revelation.

I don't think they looked at stuff that's supposed to happen during the Apocalypse, saw 'Whore of Babylon', and said, oooo, let's kill a whore, woohoo!

I can understand the problem with "on a good day you get to kill a whore" though. That was just... in bad taste.