(http://brownbetty.dreamwidth.org/profile)brownbetty (http://brownbetty.dreamwidth.org/) rounds up a couple of links and thoughts related to women and CoC in SPN through S3 in 'The way to insult a demon is to call it a woman.' (http://brownbetty.dreamwidth.org/366602.html?style=light) ( (http://apocalypsos.dreamwidth.org/profile)apocalypsos (http://apocalypsos.dreamwidth.org/) tracked gendered insults across S1-S3. Excerpt:

Season one -- Dean or Sam refer to a woman by a pejorative three times in twenty-two episodes.
Season two -- Dean or Sam refer to a woman by a pejorative three times in twenty-two episodes.
Season three -- Dean or Sam refer to a woman by a pejorative eighteen times in sixteen episodes.

Maybe they were making up for the shortened season?)

I don't know whether anyone's been keeping track in S4-S5, but I bet the record for S4 is a lot more like S3 than like S1 or S2. Betty also rounds up a list of notable presentations of racialized violence through early S4 here (http://brownbetty.dreamwidth.org/398240.html?style=light#cutid1). (http://coffeeandink.dreamwidth.org/profile)coffeeandink (http://coffeeandink.dreamwidth.org/) comments:

I agree with you about the lynching [in "Yellow Fever"], and I think you are being if anything too kind about the general level of abysmalness that is SPN racial politics. (Somewhere I have 1600 words of unfinished draft on black masculinity in SPN,* written before "Fresh Blood" even aired, and even then it pretty much amounted to, "In the SPN universe, black men are helpful to the Winchesters, in which case they will die within a single episode, or evil and/or antagonistic to the Winchesters, in which case they may become recurring characters. Of EVIL.") [Or I guess we now have Rufus, who has appeared twice so far - the exception that proves the rule?] You are really too kind about "Route 666," in which the only black men we see are dead and only nice young white boys can end the specter of racial violence.

(http://brownbetty.dreamwidth.org/profile)brownbetty (http://brownbetty.dreamwidth.org/) replies:

About Route 666, well, I think it's basically only in the context of the rest of SPN that it looks like a really quite progressive story, so maybe I am being swayed by “at least no one drinks gasoline.”

Oh, and I watched "32." I find Regina Spektor's voice grating 99 percent of the time, "32" included - and I think that tendency was aggravated by the audio quality in keewick's vids, since I downloaded and watched "Sorry" after that and the audio was a little sketchy there too - but the video is complex and well done.

*Pretty sure that draft became 'It's not murder, it's a metaphor,' which was posted a couple of months later.