“I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office.” — Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)
(via experimentallycanthropy)
Whenever someone says “I’m just like Sherlock” I have to hold back a major eyeroll(or not if it’s online). Millions of people are clever, millions don’t care about social standards, millions are misunderstood, millions are bullied. Millions. Doyle created one of the most unique and unforgettable characters in history and he was reshaped for the series. No one is “just like Sherlock.” Anyone who claims they are insult and make a mockery of the character.
Yeah, millions of people are neuroatypical, millions of people are clever, millions of people either don’t care or don’t understand social interactions, millions are understand, millions are bullied. Quite a few are all of these at the same time. Maybe I know myself better than you do and really, I am like Sherlock? He’s a fictional character, not Jesus , get over yourself.
THIS.
APPARENTLY RELATING TO SHERLOCK IS BAD NOW
LOL WHOOPS
Not to mention, there aren’t a whole lot of people “like us” in media at all. Most characters, on tv, in movies, literature, etc. are neurotypical. It’s difficult to be okay with yourself in some way when you see literally NO representation of yourself.
No, I’m not exactly like the BBC’s interpretation of Sherlock (mostly because Sherlock can be a bit more of an asshole than I hope I am), but having a character to relate to, and cringing when the allistic characters he interacts with say something terrible to him (like calling him a freak and a machine) because dude, I know that feel? Is kind of amazing in a way.
I agree with the above commentary, but I’m most reblogging because that is the best Haters Gonna Hate GIF I’ve ever seen.
bahahahaha lolllll now we’re not allowed to relate to anyone ever hahaha ok whatever fuck you too.
I’ve seen plenty of folks say they’re just like John Watson too, are we going to go eye roll on them too? “Millions of people are loyal, millions put themselves in harm’s way for their loved ones, millions are brave, millions are underappreciated. Millions. Doyle created one of the most unique and unforgettable characters in history and he was reshaped for the series. No one is ‘Just like John.’ Anyone who claims they are insult and make a mockery of the character.”
But, you know, it’s totally okay to relate to the ~normal~ character, the one that we’re SUPPOSED to relate to, but the one that’s supposed to be beyond the sphere of understanding, the ‘inhuman’ one? If we relate to that character then we’re ‘insulting’ that character.
Well, fuck you very much. It’s almost impossible to find characters that I can really feel for because so many of them are ~sociable~ and ~loving~ in the normal way. It’s fucking hard to find characters that aren’t sincere, that aren’t openly affectionate, that aren’t socially acceptable. It’s hard to find characters that have trouble showing that they care, or that have been so battered by public opinion that they honestly believe that they don’t have a heart. It’s hard to find a character that has a history like mine. One that’s been called a sociopath so often that he starts to believe it. One that is so beyond what others believe that people actually think he’s a fucking fraud (which has happened to me more often than I like - I’ve been so good at what I do, for so long, that I’ve been accused of plagiarism several times, once as early as fifth grade because “no one can write that well at so young an age”).
So you know what? Fuck you. Fuck you if you say I’m making a mockery of the character by relating to him, by feeling everything he is in everything I do. I think you’re a fucking insult to the fandom if you’re so close-minded, so mundane, that you honestly think that no one is like Sherlock in real life.
Cam Nailed it as per usual.
OP is a giant bag of assholes. Seriously.
I hate this Fandom’s idea that you can, and should only relate to John or Molly.
I don’t particularly relate to Sherlock myself. But that doesn’t mean that no one can, or no one should. Get off your bullshit high horse OP.
I think people don’t believe any real human can do a Sherlock scan, and this is his most popular characteristic. It’s almost impossible to do this in real life, because - as awesome as it seems in stories and on screen - Sherlock bases his observations on many assumptions, and in real life, they might not be true. In real life, there are more than one reason to have a scratched mobile phone or a dirty wedding ring. What Sherlock (including the original ACD character) does during the scan is NOT deduction in scientific sense of the word.
But what surprises me the most about this whole discussion is that so many people assume John to be “normal”. He’s a depressed man with PTSD, he carries (presumably) illegal gun around, he’s ready to shoot people for someone he met the other day, he needs adrenaline rush/excitement (he basically misses these things he had in war), and on top of all of it, he needs to be needed (very apparent in his relationship with Sherlock).
I mean, I like the guy, but he’s hardly a “normal” everyday person. He’s just as fucked up as Sherlock is. But unlike Sherlock, he cares about what people think of him and he has better manners and he is more emotional. But he’s hardly what you’d say an average “normal” guy.
Steven Moffat, you troll.
I do believe it was real. It’s the only thing that make sense, after the whole series of humanizing him and bringing out his emotions. It was real; it makes no sense that it wasn’t.
I believe Moffat was trolling here.
On the other hand, if tears weren’t real, I want him to have a good explanation for this, and the explanation better not be: “because he’s Sherlock and he would never get this emotional”. Or else you’d throw all of the show under the bus.
But again, I don’t think it’s the case.
(via finalproblem)
Can you identify? Science shows that the only way around some readers' prejudices is to trick them -
I have certain problems with this article, because it doesn’t really take into account the experiences of readers who aren’t straight or white. But in so many ways, yes, this is true: in order to make your straight white western readers identify with your characters, you often need to trick them into not realizing that a character doesn’t share their sexual orientation or race.
Well, you don’t “have to”, and many people refuse to do it for obvious reasons. However, let’s not pretend it isn’t so: many of these white heterosexual western readers don’t even bother to identify with characters who are not white heterosexual western people. (Add “male” to this, though concealing your character’s gender is trickier).
This Sherlock fan is sure pleased.
I mean, seeing sexy Moffat is always good, he’s gorgeous.
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“He’s a handsome, remote genius…He’s impersonating a glacier but actually he’s a volcano - or actually that’s what I imagine his frantic and amorous female following are thinking. God, I’ll get into trouble for that one. It’s me being sexist again, I tell ya. It’ll be sexist that I said women sometimes fancy men…” —
- Steven Moffat
People are attracted to attractive people. I don’t care about that. He could talk about a female following being really in to the actors or Watson and Holmes sexually (which is not new) but he could easily do so without being a dick about it. I can think of a couple of shows that know they have a female audience just for the pretty, but they don’t talk about it and then go ‘oh silly sexism!’ It is the way he clearly thinks sexism is a big silly over reaction and so he is going to keep being sexist. This quote is jut him going ‘people pointing out problematic things are so annoying’
(via file27)
Oh, yes. This is very weird, this attitude of his, not just concerning this issue, but anything, really. He can’t take any criticism and he’s very defensive about everything, even when nobody’s attacking him or questioning him. He’s often aggressive, even to the fans who adore his work. I don’t really get his attitude. One would think a writer has to learn to accept criticism and grow from the experience, but I don’t see it with him.
Then, there’s this problem with his inability to understand certain important things, sexism and gender power dynamics just being some of them. He’s not just unable (on unwilling) to understand the way his writing fails on this front, but is very defensive and tends to ridicule people for pointing out his mistakes. It seems to me he thinks people hate him because he’s too cool or because they’re jealous of him or because they’re whining, or whatever. He fails to accept his responsibility for the gender, racial and other issues found in his writing.Which is not surprising- many people do it (it goes with privilege). But he often takes a step further by ridiculing people for pointing out his mistakes.
(Source: snollygosting, via file27)
Isn’t this just a wonderful picture? Great actors…all 4 of them!
How many British actors does it take to arrange a pocket handkerchief?
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