Oh, Mister.

Back on Tumblr! Yay! Would have been earlier, but a) exhaustion is a bad look on me and b) my internet was down this morning. Obviously it’s back up now (I don’t do lengthy Tumblr posts from my phone, Swype hates me and I have a thing about misspellings).

Anyway, I dropped my girlfriend off for the bus home earlier, boo. I’m pretty sad, but I guess you guys benefit because I can post more? Bright sides, etc.

So, speaking of which, let’s talk about the latest episode of Supernatural, “The Slice Girls.

This episode was… wow. I think I turned to my girlfriend as soon as it was over and said, “I’m really glad that I’m not invested in this show anymore.” It was so bad I had to pause and rant several times within the episode. I described it to my aunt later as looking like “they’d been told they’re being sexist so many times and, instead of learning, decided to take that as permission to just go all-out with it.”

Spoilers begin now.

So, we begin the episode by finding out that men are being murdered, with strange symbols carved into their chests and their hands and feet cut off. Okay, that’s an okay setup, but it gets problematic, fast, as it turns out that the ones doing the killing are Amazons.

Amazons. As in, the strong Greek women who kept away from men and only used them for procreation (to my knowledge, they did not, in the original myths, kill the men? Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong).

In Supernatural, the Amazons seem to exist simply to demonstrate/”prove” some really sexist cultural tropes in America. For example, the whole “evil women just have sex with unsuspecting men so they can get pregnant~” screed, with a side of “gold digger” with all the men being successful. Not to mention, you know, the complete demonization of women who don’t want to be with men but might want to have children, but I’ll get to that in full momentarily.

To make matters worse, it turns out that the daughters of the Amazons are the ones killing their fathers. Immediately I know how it’s going to turn out: Someone is going to kill that little girl, and that someone is going to be Sam. Lo and behold.

(Somewhere in here, Sam starts telling Dean that Emma isn’t “really” his daughter. Er, since he contributed half her DNA, yes she is. Even if he isn’t a father to her, she’s still genetically his daughter. Sam, stop saying shit to try to make yourself feel less guilty. You killed a little girl.)

I won’t even… wait, yes I will, what the fuck were the writers thinking having Sam shoot that little girl?! She was THREE DAYS OLD, physically only sixteen! She hadn’t killed anyone, and the Amazons were shown to only kill one person (their father) in their lives. Ergo, if they convinced her not to kill Dean, she could have gone on to… not kill people. Shooting her was both morally wrong and STUPID. That the writers thought it was okay to show their hero shooting and killing a young girl who, as yet, hadn’t harmed anyone? They’re pretty out of touch.

(I’ve seen a number of people propose that this was “payback” for Amy at the beginning of the series. Major differences that should make people rethink that: Amy had actually killed people and, if her son got sick again, she would probably kill more people; Dean let Amy’s son go even though he would inevitably kill people, proving that on Supernatural, children’s lives are only valued if they’re male; oh yeah, Amy wasn’t THREE DAYS OLD; and finally, women’s lives are not fodder for some “tit-for-tat” sibling rivalry)

But that’s just the story. Let’s get to the meat of the sexism here: The demonization of women who don’t need men.

The Amazons don’t like men. They don’t need them or want them around. They want to have children, though, so they sleep with men in order to become pregnant, but don’t keep the man in their lives. Apparently, the Supernatural writers thought this was such a horrible idea — women who don’t need men!? Oh my stars! — that they needed to demonize these women and make them ~evil (because what is more evil than a woman who doesn’t need or want a man, am I right?).

(And I looked — just on Wikipedia, but still — and no, the Amazons of myth did not kill their sexual partners. They did kill or send away any male children that resulted from that sex, but infanticide was hardly uncommon or taboo at the time, particularly in myth. So recreating the Amazons as murderers of men is both ridiculous and sexist.)

The Amazons in the show are presented as being every bit as bad as the other monsters the show has portrayed, despite that they kill only once in their lives, where those other monsters kill habitually and often recreationally. I suppose that a woman who kills a man must be so horrible to them that it stacks up.

And you know, I’m not saying women should be allowed to kill men or something (lest one of the jerks from the other day show up to suggest it). I personally think Supernatural shouldn’t have tried to portray Amazons AT ALL — it doesn’t make sense and it just stinks of a sexist and anti-feminist agenda.

But then, what do I know? I’m just a woman who doesn’t want or need a man. I must be just as bad as those Amazons.

And that’s not even really going into depth on the whole “female children are expendable, male children are valuable” shit Supernatural has going on this season. (THREE DAYS, you fuckers. Anyone who is okay with Sam shooting that girl… well, let’s just say I have problems with you. BIG ones.)

Suffice to say, though I won’t go into further depth on it because I feel I have addressed my points sufficiently and also because I am.. going to Target with my aunt soon and can’t be online typing a screed against Supernatural all night, that this episode was fucking disgusting and incredibly sexist.

Way to go, Supernatural. You made me really, really glad that I stopped watching and giving a fuck about you. I hope you’re really happy.

Actually, no, wait, I hope you’re fucking miserable, you sexist garbage.