#GiveSamaVoice is about one thing and one thing only: respectfully asking the writers and creators to understand that Sam deserves to respond emotionally to his abuse and the story itself, because Supernatural is fiction, but stories are more than flights of fancy and words on a page. They change things and shape things.
#GiveSamaVoice is about asking the show to respect abuse survivors and their right to speak out. I happen to enjoy Castiel and think he matters. Some people who use the hashtag don’t like him. Some like Sam and Dean, some only Sam. Some support other characters or pairings but are baffled by the treatment of Sam. Many of us are abuse survivors or people affected profoundly by emotional, sexual, or physical abuse.
Reducing the whole of us to a flimsy caricature doesn’t erase the truth. Sure, the people who care about this are individuals with their own preferences, but the preferences of the individual do not carry over to the goals of the whole. (For example, I’d love if the bunker was filled with puppies and Sam and Cas chilled out and made flower crowns, but not everyone here shares that dream. Some hate it. That’s okay.)
We are not asking for the Sam Winchester show. We are not asking for the Sam and Dean Show.
We’re certainly not banding together as a group to…what? ask them to kill Cas or Dean or anyone else?
We’re asking for a one-second shot (Chuck forbid we ask for two seconds, or two shots—or, dear God, more than that) dedicated to showing unambiguously that Sam might actually be affected by the presence of the man who tortured him for lifetimes in the Cage, tried to severely hurt or kill him twice this season, and spent the whole first half of the season giving Sam visions of his torture.
We just want them to #givesamavoice, because our voices don’t go far alone, but, united, we have just a smidgen more than a snowball’s chance in Hell of reaching someone.
