#just a gentle reminder that it was titillating crap by the rich class FOR the upper class

[shallowseeker]

And yeah, i’ll just say it; there’s a reason that the campbells are viewed with suspicion, especially around their subsequent honor names and their “class”

whereas henry winchester gets to be gentlemanly: even though he says shit like “hunters are apes.” gwen campbell’s playful “this yours?” about a housekeeping magazine and some dudes ribbing dean about playing golf, (cause hey, it’s typically a rich-person hobby that denotes excess leisure time) get more scrutiny and disdain than henry’s blatant disrespect.

there’s a reason fandom hates samuel more and stereotypes him AS what possessed him whereas others who are/were possessed tend to “get to be proper victims,” viewed with sympathy

it’s the same reason sam cartoonishly characterizes campbells as “brawn” and winchester as “brains.” it’s the reason dean and mary are often levied with “stupid” label.

campbell-coded stereotypes are classist, (erroneously) “incestuous,” (hiii zachariah), lesser,” “dumber,” “paranoid,” “suspicious of outsiders.” and yet the MoL were literally a secret club and get none of the overtones because? high class. refined. brains. librarians, academics etc etc

it’s why sam was excited to learn henry was a MOL and had a library to rival Belle’s, but not as over the moon about samuel’s legacy…or his family library.

edit - bobby’s junkyard attenuates how sam views his genius too imho