I love it when people point at Dean and say "that's a violent man" and then turn around and give all the grace and understanding to characters like Sam (notably also a man who uses violence as a tool and uses it against Dean) and Cas (the number one source of angel death on the show and has several notable scenes of being violent to Dean specifically) and they get to be something else but Dean is just violent. Because it just proves my point. When I say "people think Dean is the angry one because of classism and because everyone around him is repressed af" I'm not saying he isn't angry. I'm not saying he has never been angry. I am not saying his anger can't be frightening or out of control. I'm saying they're all fucking angry. But Dean gets that label because Dean is the most visibly lower class. In the way he talks. The way he dresses. The fact that he never went through higher education. The fact that he doesn't flinch away from being perceived as working class/poor and actually leans into it a lot especially when people use it as an excuse to not treat him with respect. And Dean gets that label because when he's angry that's what he calls it. Because his anger is visible. Because it's almost always a direct response to what is currently happening to him and not repressed until it erupts later when something triggers it. I'm not saying Dean isn't angry I'm saying that there is no "angry one" in this show full of trauma and violence and angry characters, there's just different ways in which anger is expressed. I'm not saying Dean isn't violent. I'm saying that they all use violence, but it's interesting that people only really perceive Dean's as being out of control and tied to his anger.
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