Yeah--I know what you mean--if one got equally incensed by every misogynist stink bomb SPN threw out, one's head would explode. I, too, mostly go along not being too bothered by them, and then every once in a while...Last season it was the gutting of Ruby that really did me in....

I'm not sure how it ties in to Dean's departure, though? This ep. seemed so different than the "break up" in 5.02--though clearly part of the same arc of Dean being able to distance himself from Sam. It's heartbreaking that he's only come to trust and rely on Sam less since then (even though Sam has been showing himself more worthy of trust, etc.) but it makes a perfect kind of sense...