What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

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->Favorite Scenes: “Red Sky At Morning” - [ 3x06 ]

But can we talk about how this scene is genderflipping a classic trope? Ordinarily, it’s the awkward girl who comes downstairs in a formal dress and the handsome guy whose breath gets taken away by how gorgeous she looks. Instead, we get Dean descending in a proper suit and Bela looking him over, at which point, she propositions him, and Dean responds by crossing his arms and muttering, ‘Don’t objectify me.’ 

Interestingly, this episode also puts Sam in a traditionally feminine role, inasmuch as he’s the pretty young thing being inappropriately leched on by an older person of the opposite gender, but whereas his objectification (and actual sexual harassment!) is played for laughs, Dean’s is called out in the narrative. Which is, I think, fairly typical of the inherent differences in how the Winchesters are treated: Dean is always portrayed as the more romantically vulnerable of the two, while Sam - despite having been assaulted numerous times - is assumed to be able to ‘handle it’ in a way that his brother can’t. Women preying on Sam, even after his experiences in hell, are implied to have comic effect; but we’re never quite allowed to ignore Dean’s discomfort in the same way.  

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