can learn to love again
oh my FUCKING GOODNESS LOOK AT YOU
Oh my god it just looks so proud of itself.
i am leopard.
"Dean Winchester has been a fascinating study in the deconstruction of conventional masculinity since Season 1, but that’s really come into its own in the last few seasons. It has nothing to do with his sexual orientation (volumes could and have been written about Dean’s sexuality in every direction, but I’m content to watch how the show plays out in that regard) and everything to do with watching the story of a man learning to dig out his authentic self beneath the years of Stockholm Syndrome and trauma that growing up with an abusive alcoholic ex-Marine father heaped upon him.
The reality is, as the show and Dean himself have made explicit at various times during its run, that John Winchester forced Dean to be a surrogate mother/spouse/feminized (in his view) caretaker role while simultaneously forcing him into as many hypermasculine tropes as he could think of and rewarding him only for being as much like him as possible. This would do a serious number on anyone’s head and I think the writers and the actor who plays Dean all realize this. Watching Dean face and resolve that harmful, abusive dichotomy over the years has been a unique experience for me as a viewer. The show has really benefited from having Jensen Ackles in the role, who has given him a level of nuance - and allowed the writers to plumb depths - that probably wouldn’t otherwise be there."
The reality is, as the show and Dean himself have made explicit at various times during its run, that John Winchester forced Dean to be a surrogate mother/spouse/feminized (in his view) caretaker role while simultaneously forcing him into as many hypermasculine tropes as he could think of and rewarding him only for being as much like him as possible. This would do a serious number on anyone’s head and I think the writers and the actor who plays Dean all realize this. Watching Dean face and resolve that harmful, abusive dichotomy over the years has been a unique experience for me as a viewer. The show has really benefited from having Jensen Ackles in the role, who has given him a level of nuance - and allowed the writers to plumb depths - that probably wouldn’t otherwise be there."
Supernatural’s Dean Winchester Dismantled His Own Machismo — and That’s Why We Love Him [x] (via bennylafitte)
Oh god someone finally made it.
“Brave. Sansa took a deep breath. I am a Stark, yes, I can be brave.”
Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. A woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel.
Hello there! I'm Nevvy, 21 winters old, Belgian Nerdfighter and an avid fangirl of many things such as: Doctor Who, BBC Sherlock, The Avengers, Game of Thrones, Supernatural, Thor, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Torchwood, The Big Bang Theory, bit of Teen Wolf, The Walking Dead and many more.
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