Tasteless is harmless, you know? That's why it's a big deal to me- rape culture isn't. You can joke about, oh... muggings, you know, because we don't live somewhere where robbery is dismissed as a crime. I know that in theory rape is taken seriously, but it's really not in practice. When the news stories reporting the gang rape of an 11 year old girl by 20 guys focus on if the girl wore "age appropriate" clothing, the tragedy of so many young men's lives ruined, and then publish pictures of her (easily identifiable) house....well, that's the symptoms of a culture that does not really take rape seriously (except to punish the victim). I use that one example because it is SO extreme that it's hard not to miss the awfulness of it, whereas more subtle examples fit in so well with the world as we know it that it's hard to see how fucked up it is.
So anyway. While yes, it is one line in a random small cult tv show, it's symptomatic of a larger problem that'll never get fixed if we only point it out in the big things.
Also, I was going to add this to my response but you replied before I could ETA:
>>Is having a sociopathic non-Sam while Sam's soul screams in the cage somehow better than caring for a hell-broken Sam? To me, as to Dean, this isn't and shouldn't be a question. It's like if your brother was a POW somewhere and you said "Oh, just leave him, I don't want to deal with the PTSD." It's absurd.
I agree SO MUCH WITH THIS. The worst thing for me is that I just can't say, "oh, well that was Cas being shady," because the show seemed to agree with him? I mean, like everyone seemed to be giving that line. And thus I felt very, very, very confused. "You can't do that! Sam will suffer!" Me: ??????????????????????????? x 100,000.
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So anyway. While yes, it is one line in a random small cult tv show, it's symptomatic of a larger problem that'll never get fixed if we only point it out in the big things.
Also, I was going to add this to my response but you replied before I could ETA:
>>Is having a sociopathic non-Sam while Sam's soul screams in the cage somehow better than caring for a hell-broken Sam? To me, as to Dean, this isn't and shouldn't be a question. It's like if your brother was a POW somewhere and you said "Oh, just leave him, I don't want to deal with the PTSD." It's absurd.
I agree SO MUCH WITH THIS. The worst thing for me is that I just can't say, "oh, well that was Cas being shady," because the show seemed to agree with him? I mean, like everyone seemed to be giving that line. And thus I felt very, very, very confused. "You can't do that! Sam will suffer!" Me: ??????????????????????????? x 100,000.