Very interesting meta. I noticed that this ep had both brothers being violated, essentially. Sam with his "unaware/uncaring of proper boundaries" fangirl feeling him up, and Dean with the explicit "attack" by Meg. Hmm. Must think more on this.
Although I would slightly disgree with this:
Even Meg Masters, who comes to Dean in Are You There God? (4.02) and calls him a monster for not seeing that she was alive, doesn't use the sexual language of being ridden, of being taken, of being empty until a demon used her.
Meg did use that language, if I recall correctly. She (well, GhostMeg) asked Dean, "Do you have any idea what it's like to be ridden by evil for months?"
Which I found to be an interesting correlation to the fact that yeah, Dean's just gotten out of Hell, where he was ridden by evil for 40 years, 30 of which he was actively victimized. And Alastair's later words to Dean on the subject of what went down as part of the torture, "all those pokes and prods"... definitely a sexual rape connotation. And Dean eventually broke because of it. So I got the message that even big strong guys can be victims of assault and in a position of not being able to protect themselves from it, and yeah, it can break them too.
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Date: 2009-09-14 12:53 am (UTC)Although I would slightly disgree with this:
Even Meg Masters, who comes to Dean in Are You There God? (4.02) and calls him a monster for not seeing that she was alive, doesn't use the sexual language of being ridden, of being taken, of being empty until a demon used her.
Meg did use that language, if I recall correctly. She (well, GhostMeg) asked Dean, "Do you have any idea what it's like to be ridden by evil for months?"
Which I found to be an interesting correlation to the fact that yeah, Dean's just gotten out of Hell, where he was ridden by evil for 40 years, 30 of which he was actively victimized. And Alastair's later words to Dean on the subject of what went down as part of the torture, "all those pokes and prods"... definitely a sexual rape connotation. And Dean eventually broke because of it. So I got the message that even big strong guys can be victims of assault and in a position of not being able to protect themselves from it, and yeah, it can break them too.