If you look over the posts in trollprincess's LJ before the one I linked to, you'll see that she does include statistics for "son of a bitch," which IIRC is only used toward men or male-type monsters -- very common in S1 and S2, but seems to fall out of use in S3.
but I do believe that some of what prompted these discussions has to do with having a female Big Bad and another female character as an antagonist to the boys instead of male antagonists.
Well, I think that this is actually part of the problem. I mean, if you're going to make Lilith your Big Adversary, I think you should probably think carefully about what else you're saying about women, especially women with their own agendas, and about female sexuality. (I am presuming here that you know the story; not all viewers will, but the show's writers have in the past been pretty good about getting the occult research right, so I have to assume that they know it too.) I don't get a positive message from the combination of Ruby, Bela and Lilith here -- what I get is the message that good women know their place, and know that their place is subordinate to the men in their lives. So I don't think that the overall structure of the season can be used to excuse the languague -- I think they are both facets of the same larger problem.
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If you look over the posts in
but I do believe that some of what prompted these discussions has to do with having a female Big Bad and another female character as an antagonist to the boys instead of male antagonists.
Well, I think that this is actually part of the problem. I mean, if you're going to make Lilith your Big Adversary, I think you should probably think carefully about what else you're saying about women, especially women with their own agendas, and about female sexuality. (I am presuming here that you know the story; not all viewers will, but the show's writers have in the past been pretty good about getting the occult research right, so I have to assume that they know it too.) I don't get a positive message from the combination of Ruby, Bela and Lilith here -- what I get is the message that good women know their place, and know that their place is subordinate to the men in their lives. So I don't think that the overall structure of the season can be used to excuse the languague -- I think they are both facets of the same larger problem.