#but do you seriously SERIOUSLY believe mary consensually stayed with john because she kicked him out twice

[hollywoodbabylondean]

What bugs me about Mary hate is. There's no pleasing the people that hate her they just want to hate her. She face backlash in seasons 1 and 2 for being this idealized figure with no personality other than "maternal" so then she gets written to fight back against that critique in seasons 4&5, at which point people say she's bad for rebelling against Samuel (while Sam was praised for rebelling against John) or that she literally and consciously sold Sam to azazel when if you look at her interactions with azazel in 4.03, she literally only consents to let him in the house in 10 years, when kids were not part of her plan. And then in 5.16, John leaves and nobody bats an eye, but in the flashbacks on season 12, when Mary leaves baby Dean with john, she's this abusive neglectful mother.

And then when she's brought back!

Oh, people hate her because she's weird and distant! But how was she supposed to be? Because if she was maternal to men older than her, she'd be accused of being patronizing and infantilizing them!

Like, hot take, but if you're unceremoniously resurrected against your will and your children are now older than you... mayhaps you're absolved of your parenting responsibilities

#not to mention the people who victim blame her for being murdered #but i feel like people hate john so much that they decide mary is equally bad for not absconding with dean and infant sam #at which point theyd still hate her because thats what john did #but do you seriously SERIOUSLY believe mary consensually stayed with john because she kicked him out twice #also a woman in the 70s with no real documents employment or educational history? #WHAT WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH HERSELF LET ALONE DEAN