I play so much on the periphery of SPN fandom these days, I've only recently heard about other people being just as upset as I've been about this. (You already know I'm writing another fic o' doom based on one of the spn_xx prompts that is my response to 3.09, the episode that singlehandedly set off all of my cranky alarms.)

As trollprincess shows, you can't argue with the math. I watched the first twelve episodes of the season in one shot as part of writing my not-big-bang. Watching the season unfold - without a break from the pejoratives - only clarified the language issue for me.

And the statistics don't even touch the subtext...