Supernatural is a show ABOUT misogyny. It is a show about how men's damaging, misogynistic relationships under patriarchy fuck them up, subject them to an endless cycle of violence and estrange them from their own hearts. It's about fucked up relationships between fathers and sons, from brother to brother, and from the ultimate father, God, to his creation, which he has explicitly rigged up to make brothers kill each other. The subject of Supernatural is the way that patriarchy is bad for MEN.
There are people in this fandom who could really stand to do some deeper, less surface-level thinking about the difference between a DEPICTION of misogyny and the rubber-stamping approval, or even just unconscious replication, of it. Is there unconsciously replicated, period-typical misogyny in it? Yes, of course. We are all creatures of our time and place, but so often the misogyny in Supernatural is highly-intentional, over the top, cartoonish, explicitly stupid and mocked when directed at women, and insidious and soul-destroying when the men on Supernatural direct it towards each other, or inwards towards their own softer feelings and desires, and that is an intentional interrogation of what misogyny is and does, and Supernatural has legitimately interesting things to say about that topic. It is a story about men that is actually, in many, many ways, in the interests of those of us who want to see gender-hierarchy dismantled.
Also, there are numerous meaningful relationships that the Winchesters have with women who are not dead at the end of the series (Cassie, Jody, Donna, Rowena, Claire, maybe Eileen...) and some very meaningful relationships with women who do die, which, in itself, is not misogynist (Mary, Charlie, Ellen and Jo, maybe Eileen). What Supernatural does not feature, is heterosexual romance, which is not the only possible meaningful relationship a man can have with a woman, and not what he story is actually about.
Finally, do you really, REALLY think they actually wonder why people think some of those men are gay? I mean, REALLY? Because I don't. I think they are WELL AWARE of why people think that. For one thing, Cas is explictly in love with Dean. Confirmed canon, and completely obvious LONG before he said it. "But they said..." WHO CARES what they said? Look at the actual text! There are so many reasons beyond the lack of het romance in Supernatural to read characters on that show as queer and many of them are explict and/or narratively structural.
The other thing people need to get a grip on is that when people talk about ongoing stories that they are party to the making of, it is right and proper for them to not talk about or reveal things that haven't happened yet in the story. Dear creators of that story: THANK YOU for not telling us, word of God-style, what is happening in that story. THANK YOU for leaving us the space to dream in it.
And like, I don't know if you noticed? But in the actual story on our screens, not in subtext at all, queer, essentially non-compliant love literally pierced the veil of death to save the day? Which is a thing they really said it was capable of on Supernatural. I think it's time some of us stopped repeating the fandom catechism and accepted the fact that this was a QUEER STORY, the writers of that story meant for it to be queer, and the actors knew what they were doing.
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