…Sam as an allegory for sexual violence and a loss of autonomy, Dean as the parentified eldest daughter, and John as a devouring mother. Dean is forced into the role of mother co-parenting Sam beside their father. While Sam is treated with the double standards of a daughter in a house full of men.
@bitterlylovely.bsky.social*gnawing at the bars of my cage* the presence of casual misogyny in tandem with themes of hypermasculinity in supernatural, are meant to contrast heavily with the strong feminine overtones of each character and the roles they fall into;
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