I have a question. I watch this show ...sometimes; the ick factor frequently outweighs the pretty for me because my ick tolerance is fairly low. But, what did he call the bad guy (male, guy, the demon that died when John came out of the door thing at the end of S2)?
I'm not particularly arguing your premise, just trying to decide whether I think the problem is that pejoratives for male characters are words we don't think are about maleness (or, whether ones that are, we don't allow on television), per se, and that makes the analysis be partly stuck in a problem that isn't actually Dean's.
I mean, he could call the guy a dick--I think I think regular TV won't censor that in that context, will it? hm.--and that would be a sex-based pejorative. He could certainly not call him a cocksucker (whole other problem with that as a pejorative for a man, but either way, not on the TV, no).
Yes, now I'm rambling. My point is, are these words ones that can be gotten away with where masculine equivalents can't, or, are there masculine equivalents used for a bad guy guy, or are you saying that he only calls female characters anything bad?
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I'm not particularly arguing your premise, just trying to decide whether I think the problem is that pejoratives for male characters are words we don't think are about maleness (or, whether ones that are, we don't allow on television), per se, and that makes the analysis be partly stuck in a problem that isn't actually Dean's.
I mean, he could call the guy a dick--I think I think regular TV won't censor that in that context, will it? hm.--and that would be a sex-based pejorative. He could certainly not call him a cocksucker (whole other problem with that as a pejorative for a man, but either way, not on the TV, no).
Yes, now I'm rambling. My point is, are these words ones that can be gotten away with where masculine equivalents can't, or, are there masculine equivalents used for a bad guy guy, or are you saying that he only calls female characters anything bad?