John still ensured Sam and Dean went to school, had outside pursuits (Sam’s soccer trophies and school plays, Dean learning how to fix the car), were fed, clothed, and sheltered, all the while running from demons that were constantly following his family. He still managed to set aside time and money for vacations (to the Grand Canyon), he still cooked for and took care of his kids when they were sick (John Winchester’s Patented Kitchen Sink Stew), and he still raised two geniuses.
Please, tell me what more John was supposed to do while he was dealing with the trauma of his wife being burned to death before his eyes, learning that the entire world is not what it seemed, that there were supernatural creatures specifically targeting his family for some reason, having to train himself to be a hunter from the ground up so that he could protect his kids.
Tell me how he was supposed to settle in one place and let the boys have a stable home. Oh wait, except, he couldn’t do that! Azazel even said so in season 2. He murdered Jess to get Sam back on the road. If John and Sam and Dean had settled anywhere, they just would have been hit again and again until they got back on the road.
No, John wasn’t father of the year, because the fucking life he was thrown into unwillingly made it so he couldn’t be.
And I brought up alcoholism because people always like to call John “an abusive drunk” when there isn’t evidence for either of those things. People decry John for his drinking that we never see and praise Bobby as Saint Real Dad when Bobby was the drunk who encouraged Dean’s alcoholism.
90% of the extreme self-loathing and self-destructive behaviour we see in Dean (and later Sam) doesn’t even come out until after John dies, and after Dean goes to hell.
So it boggles my mind that people blame all this shit on John and not, you know, the horrible life that none of them had a choice in, or the decades of torture in hell, or the manipulation on the part of both angels and demons.
No, clearly that’s all John’s fault. Give me a fucking break.
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