love your breakdown of the Anna/Dean sex scene. Although I'll have to say, the fandom's reaction to her (and to other women characters who had the "potential" of being a love interest) /was/ misogynistic. But SPN's narrative is pretty sexist and often relegates women to the domestic space (the apple pie life is often synonymous with a woman like Jess or Lisa), so I feel like fandom and show kind of feed off each other.
Thanks! And yeah, I don't doubt that it was, at least on some people's part. It's a mess. I just keep plugging thequixoticbedhead's essay, in case anyone hasn't read it yet, because it's the most sensible and accurate thing I've read on the subject.
SPN can be super frustrating, because they keep introducing all these great lady characters, and then immediately writing them off once the audience says they don't want them to be Sam or Dean's girlfriend. And it's like goddammit you could have kept them around and just, I don't know, not had them make out with anybody. SPN's big problem, lady-wise, (imo) is its inability to imagine a role for women that isn't "love interest," "villainess," or "mom." We've finally got Krissy and Charlie, which is great, but that took, what, seven seasons? Jesus. (Also, being underage and lesbian, respectively, they don't represent the same "threat" to SPN's homosociality that straight, age-appropriate women do. But baby steps, I guess. *grumbles about the patriarchy*)