Here via missyjack. Love your post! I haven't seen any of the discussions you've mentioned, so I must say I am a bit surprised by the negativity. I, too, get very tired of sexual women being somehow received by analysts as anti-feminist. My view is that the single most anti-feminist thing you can do to any woman is to deny her right to her sexuality, *as she chooses to use or define it*. Irene used her nakedness as a weapon, a strategy, to wrong-foot Sherl; in the end, it was incidental, something she employed to measure Sherlock by. She was brilliant, and captivated him not by her tits but by her mind. I thoroughly enjoyed the portrayal, and rather thought that her role as a dominatrix was as much about her being beyond the society she 'served' as anything else. Everything she did - her work, the way she interacted with Sherl - was on *her* terms.
You put it all so much better. Thank you for a terrific post!
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Date: 2012-01-05 10:04 am (UTC)You put it all so much better. Thank you for a terrific post!