not stupid. Dean Winchester reads books. Dean Winchester listens.
I repeat: DEAN WINCHESTER IS NOT STUPID
Dean Winchester is indeed a smartypants.
Sam and Dean grew up together, sure one may be smarter in a particular subject like mechanics or something else, but to call one dumb is to call the other one dumb.
i actually really love conversations about their different “kind” of smarts. like, clearly (to me, anyway) they’re both brilliant dudes. great memories, great deductive reasoning, great tactical planners, sneaky, creative, etc.
I think sam’s like, the super focused kind of brilliant. he studies. he catalogs. the shit in his brain is all neatly filed, in order of importance and then probably alphabetically and chronologically. he knows precisely what’s there and what iisn’t and when he needs to retrieve information he pretty much knows exactly where to get it from.
conversely, dean’s brain is a mess. like, absolute chaos. a swirling tornado of thoughts and facts and memories and he only tangentially (but instinctively) has a sense for what’s in there. he can’t necessarily go right to it, either it comes out entirely without effort, or he has to cast a wide net or take an unconventional path to get to it.
two perfectly complementary kinds of smartypants. because of course.
so last week I was walking downtown and a girl leaned out her car window and yelled “YOU LOOK LIKE A PRINCESS” and today a girl walked past me on the sidewalk and said “I love your socks” (they have birds on them) and I suggest we replace all cat-calling with girls complimenting each other on the street because honestly I have never felt more pretty or into girls in my goddamn life
Catcalling is a compliment when women do it
no, complimenting isn’t catcallng because it’s actually trying to make the person happy as opposed to deliberately harassing someone as a power trip
one of the best moments of my life was biking past this group of late-teens girls and one yelling “I LIKE YOUR BIKE,” and i smiled and waved, and another yells after me “and you’re pretty!”
women supporting other women is pure and will always be a good thing; men harassing people because they feed off of asserting dominance over people without power will always be trash
If men want to yell things like your socks are cool and I love your hair, that would be well appreciated. But instead they’ll just bark at me from their cars.
I am totally here for people of all genders replacing catcalling with gentle drive-by compliments.
