#anyway I'm in lvoe with fem!Sam she's my everything
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roadtripheartbreak · 4 months ago
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Been thinking about genderswapped Winchesters again recently and I think the most accurate way to do it is to make Dean perform femininity in the same way he's performing masculinity while Sam is subverting gender expectations.
Dean's brand of masculinity is very much a performance for male validation and respect. It's heavily influenced by John's view of masculinity, so I think his performance of femininity would also be heavily influenced by that.
I've seen a couple of takes where Dean is hyper fem and while I do think that's an interesting take, hyper feminity isn't rewarded in a patriarchal society the same way hyper masculinity is. The type of feminity that is the most valued in the patriarchy is one that upholds the power dynamic, one that acknowledges that everything masculine is inherently more worthy than anything feminine, all while never challenging the framework or trying to break out of it. The most rewarded performance of femininity is one that is inherently misogynistic. I will quote Gillian Flynns Cool Girl monologue for the hundredth time, I don't even care that it feels redundant at this point:
Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.[...] They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be.
This still captures it so perfectly and I think it aligns so well with the kind of femininity that gets rewarded in the environment that Dean and Sam grew up in: easygoing, uncomplicated. Tough enough to take what men dish out. Never nagging or complaining, fun and carefree. Not shy or demure, not emotional or soft, not "like other girls". Deeply anti-feminist attitudes, not necessarily in a traditionalist way, but in a "I don't need it, I can do everything I want" way.
And I think Dean would adhere to this completely. She's performing the same kind of tough, no nonsense perosna because this is the currency of male validation. She's puts effort into looking hot, while putting just as much effort into making it look effortless. All of her interests are still copied from John, music taste and love for classic cars and good old alcoholism. But all this tough attitude is still rooted in absolute obedience - she follows his orders, she never complains, she is the good daughter.
Sam on the other hand goes against gender stereotypes. She doesn't try to make herself palatable to the male gaze, doesn't try to stay within patriarchal norms, she actively rages against them. She's not trying to make nice, she's angry a lot, she complains. She dresses tom boyish, she has choppy uneven bangs that she cuts herself. She listens to 7 Year bitch and Bikini Kill and quotes Simone de Beauvoir.
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