User blog comment:Jyggalag Daedric Prince of Order/Season 9 A Bust?/@comment-6637171-20130702165430/@comment-5619706-20130703115358

On face value: This is definitely awesome.

In hindsight: I agree that they better not kill her off unceremoniously early into the season. And also, they have been tricky about the audition business. Castiel was described as a high-level demon to keep the angel plot under wraps, and Ruby was also described simply as a hunter who was better than both Sam and Dean.

Gurgatory, I know they kill everybody. But the lopsided view on female characters adds more weight/reason as to why more female characters are/were written/killed off.