I'd posit, Juliana, that rather than a complex analysis of their experiences, you can go with the general reason why John and Dean perform their masculinities so differently: one of these two grew up in the 50s, with all the attendant repression-and-mayonnaise that era involves, and the other one didn't.
If the show's to be believed, John grew up mostly in the 60s, being from the crop of '54. So somewhere in between Leave It to Beaver and The Wonder Years.
Ow! Help, I sprained something, imagining Dean watching MTV circa 1986.
What year did Headbanger's Ball start, anyhow?
Headbanger's Ball ran from April 11, 1987 - January 1995, according to wikipedia.
Ow! Help, I sprained something, imagining Dean watching MTV circa 1986.
What year did Headbanger's Ball start, anyhow?
My brain just went to Dean sneaking off so he could go see the Iron Maiden tour when Guns 'n Roses opened for them (which would have been '88 or '89).
Supernatural 2: Breeding Your Plot Bunnies Since 2007
If the show's to be believed, John grew up mostly in the 60s, being from the crop of '54.
I think that the speed at which culture travels means that being born in 1954 in Indiana is equivalent to being born in 1946 in California. Or possibly 1846, except for all that newfangled technology.
Am I the only boy in here?
I think that the speed at which culture travels means that being born in 1954 in Indiana is equivalent to being born in 1946 in California. Or possibly 1846, except for all that newfangled technology.
Heh.
This is where being raised by counterculture UnAmerican freaks (born in a 1936 that for one of them, in terms of tech, might as well have been 1836) puts me at a disadvantage, as my notions of American Masculinity were pretty much formed the same way as Dean's, which is to say by watching a lot of movies with Jack Nicholson in them.
For part of my childhood, I spent winters in southern New England and summers in Maine, and could map how slowly daily effects of culture travel. (Toys, those wrist-slap bracelets, slang, etc.) And that was just, like, 300 miles! Also, memes travel more easily to the willing; and about 1965 is when American culture discovered the concept of niche marketing.
For part of my childhood, I spent winters in southern New England and summers in Maine, and could map how slowly daily effects of culture travel.
In the pre-Internet era, I tended to observe about a 5 year lag in culture from Seattle (which, back then, was supposedly about 5 years behind the rest of the country) to rural BC.
So far, P-C.
Oh, growing up, there was at least a ten-fifteen year lag between NY and CA and rural...or you know, urban, NC. Now, I think it may be closer to five, but there's the whole bible belt thing, which tends to keep the godless, suspect, newfangled ways down, so add a couple years back on.
