Winchesters clothing: Dean in The Purge
Winchesters clothing: Dean in The Purge
This. THIS is the Dean I adore. This. This man who makes women feel comfortable. Beautiful. Allowed to be themselves completely. Who sees a girl stuffing her mouth and thinks nothing of it, doesn’t make fun of her or make any kind of passing comment to Sam… cuz he’s stuffing his too. Dean, who tells a woman who fell in love with a “thicker” man that he understands that that extra cushioning is nice. Dean, who tells a woman who’s husband left her because he thought she was too fat, that he doesn’t deserve her.
Like, I could picture Dean cuddled up with a cute chubby girl…. like me or you or any girl regardless of her weight, he’d feed her pecan pie while snuggled up watching star trek and LotR and Game of Thrones re-runs.I am so damn proud of what kind of man Dean Winchester is.
So please explain why that is, Dean.
A number of people have asked this! Here’s what I can remember offhand.
[discussing a dead man]
SAM: So, what, death by tube steak?
DEAN: [scoff] I wish.What an odd thing to say.
Now IDK about y’all but literally the only time I’ve heard the term “tube steak” used to actually mean a sausage or hot dog instead of a penis…is when it’s being explicitly likened to a penis. This also brings to mind the bit in 6.06 wherein Sam says a guy was “drilled to death” by a dentist, established male, and Dean chimes in with “You mean the non-sexy kind of drilling, right?”
Oh hey look, 6.06 and 9.13 were written by the same team. Interesting!
“So we talking six-inchers, foot-longs…?” Dean didn’t come off as just deadpanning for the sake of making a dirty joke at the guy’s expense. That was quiet, earnest, interested conversation. After all, size matters, especially when you’re considering how big a sausage you can get into your mouth.
“Stop flirting with the trainers” could be written off as yet another of many instances of the Mistaken for Gay trope we’ve seen over the years, but it stands apart thanks to the diction. In all the other instances I can remember at the moment the trope is leveled at both of the brothers: the realtors in 1.08, the boy manning the hotel desk in 1.18, the hotel staff in 2.11, Ash in 5.16, very possibly Adam due to being misled/manipulated by Zachariah in 5.18, Michael in 8.04, etc. In this instance, though, it’s directed solely – or at least primarily – at Dean: an assumed or accused sexual interest in the buff, handsome yoga trainer rather than an assumption that they’re already an item.
“Sweet and salty, best of both worlds” might be a little bit of a stretch but the potential symbolism is as obvious as it is raunchy. There’s also this old saying, in vino veritas (there is truth in wine), which means people tend to be more honest when their inhibitions are lowered by alcohol. The same can be said of other depressant drugs. Ironically it doesn’t always hold true, but the idea that people will let things slip that they otherwise occlude when they’re out of it due to drugs, drink, or injury is a pervasive trope.
All these must be taken alongside indications of Dean’s attraction to women, such as the way he eyes the blonde trainer at the site of the second death and Sam’s accusation of him lying about his age to a woman. It’s not that we’re at all unaware that he digs the ladies; it’s that the episode also suggests he digs the fellas too. That’s a lot of bi!Dean innuendo packed into ~45 minutes of film.
9.13; Please tell me, what is the upside of me being alive?
Remember when Dean was like lol I only watch the porn versions of fairy tales cause I’m a real man
and now he’s like “omg that is so cute tell me more about your adorable love story” like look at his fucking face, he is so genuinely pleased and just lovestruck by all the love stories in this episode and in a way that has completely forgone that need to not identify and connect with the feminine. Tis a beautiful thing my friends, tis a beautiful thing
This. THIS is the Dean I adore. This. This man who makes women feel comfortable. Beautiful. Allowed to be themselves completely. Who sees a girl stuffing her mouth and thinks nothing of it, doesn’t make fun of her or make any kind of passing comment to Sam… cuz he’s stuffing his too. Dean, who tells a woman who fell in love with a “thicker” man that he understands that that extra cushioning is nice. Dean, who tells a woman who’s husband left her because he thought she was too fat, that he doesn’t deserve her.
Like, I could picture Dean cuddled up with a cute chubby girl…. like me or you or any girl regardless of her weight, he’d feed her pecan pie while snuggled up watching star trek and LotR and Game of Thrones re-runs.