So, we are trying to save the Wayward
Sisters TV show.
And you might think: yeah,
right, another show related to Supernatural and your crazy TV family so you can
keep watching telly and posting funny memes of the Winchesters and those other
fellas…
But, what if I told you that
this fight is not about Supernatural and the family (not entirely anyway), but
it’s about saving a show that tells the story of women supporting and loving
other women, creating a unique connection based on trust and the idea of
equality. Because I’ll tell you something: Dean Winchester is hot, no doubt,
but Sheriff Jodi Mills (portrayed by Kim Rhodes) is a bad ass hunter and a
mother and we all know that women and mothers have supported the most of the
heavy loads in history, so, to be honest, if I was a monster, I wouldn’t like
to face Jodi Mills in an dark alley.
What make this show unique and
special are the characters. They are the reflection of the women of this
century: hardworking women, well trained and capable of living a full life,
supporting themselves and their families, working hard to reach back the role
in society and history that has been taken. Women able to do a man’s job as
well (if not even better). Beautiful human beings, strong and flexible, loving
and caring, fearful of losing their children, but confident that they have
prepared them for life.
This is a show about monsters,
yes, but its characters are real people taken from real life, with real fears
and real joys. These are real women.
Strong, fierce. Wayward as fuck.
We need to save this TV show
for the meaning of these characters. They are us, women living, working and
fighting in a men’s world. We have improved our situation in Europe and America
during the last century, but the situation of others is not even close to what
is right, and what are our rights as human beings. The salaries and the
workload between men and women are far from equal, not only in the working
market, but also in the privacy of their houses. In 2015, it was found that
two-thirds of world's illiterate adults were women. Unfortunately, that stigma
prevails through generations: even when the access to Education is being
granted, the lack of confidence among women will make hard for them to accept
it.
And, regarding to grant the access
to Education, Kim Rhodes and Briana Buckmaster (whose character is the sweet
and loving Donna Hanscum), launched a campaign, in collaboration with Random
Acts: “Dreams 2 Acts Nicaragua project” (https://nicaragua.randomacts.org/).
We need to save the Wayward
Sisters TV show to prove that we are not pretty ornaments anymore. We
need to show that we are fighting for other sisters who are not as lucky as we
are. We need to remember the World that we are not going to forget the forgotten.
This show means that it is possible to have real women in television, that, finally, we are ready to overcome the
stereotype of women who can only succeed and survive if they are mean and
heartless, o brainless and meek. We are not taking those roles anymore. And we
are not letting others to put us in the corner.
We need to save the Wayward
Sisters because this show is another tool for women to fight for our
rights. Because is another way to change the world and make it better and
fairer, for everyone. We need to prove that we don’t want those women characters
created to fill gaps anymore. That is not us.
We need to save the Wayward
sisters because if not, it will mean that this Eastern society is not
as fair as it claims and I refuse to
believe that there is no hope.
Because I am a wayward
daughter as fuck.
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