Thank you thank you for this! I think a lot about the gaze in SPN, it's such a complicated topic. But as for the reverse gaze you show here so delightfully - do you feel empowered by this?
[some unpopular things to sy about SPN, feel free to skip - really ]
For me in most cases (particularly earlier seasons) this feels like it's mostly meant to showcase the hotness of the Winchesters, and/or to give us cookie cutter "sassy strong women characters " as a sort of "we didn't bother actually writing a character, but strong women are feminists and sexy, so everybody's pleased, right ?"
As for Lydia - I agree with you, though this is also put down - she is evil, the offspring is killed, the scene is cut with that guy being killed, and from the cuts between the phallic knife and everybody's positions it is pretty clear she, at least metaphorically, was the top in that scene. It is SUCH an m-preg episode, only without the m-preg...
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I think a lot about the gaze in SPN, it's such a complicated topic. But as for the reverse gaze you show here so delightfully - do you feel empowered by this?
[some unpopular things to sy about SPN, feel free to skip - really ]
For me in most cases (particularly earlier seasons) this feels like it's mostly meant to showcase the hotness of the Winchesters, and/or to give us cookie cutter "sassy strong women characters " as a sort of "we didn't bother actually writing a character, but strong women are feminists and sexy, so everybody's pleased, right ?"
As for Lydia - I agree with you, though this is also put down - she is evil, the offspring is killed, the scene is cut with that guy being killed, and from the cuts between the phallic knife and everybody's positions it is pretty clear she, at least metaphorically, was the top in that scene. It is SUCH an m-preg episode, only without the m-preg...