Hello! I responded to your comments in reverse order :P
It baffles me, saddens me and makes me angry how people can’t just be taken for who they are and has to be judged and held up to a specific standard, women especially. And the one standard in anything but, and if women can never be a dominatrix, a mother, a school teacher, a lover, or any other thing people perceive as being degrading because women are often put in those boxes then we’ll just continue as we are. I agree that women in general needs to be given larger roles, and better ones in many cases, but that will do little if any role will be only be seen and understood by one or two factors regarding that role and not the character as a person. If all a person sees is the dominatrix in Irene they’re missing out, she’s so much more than that, but people are blinded by that one aspect of her.
Couldn't have said it better myself. It saddens me the most that WOMEN are often the ones judging and holding up other women to a specific standard. The worst thing you can do to someone is not allow them to be human - and that includes wanting to turn them into some sort of Ideal. Irene should be allowed to have faults, (just as I have faults and you have faults, and Sherlock has faults,) without being accused of representing her entire gender poorly.
I think it’s clear that Sherlock chooses who he spends time with within a clear set of ground rules, he only has patience to deal with a few people and the scene in Mrs Hudson’s kitchen made a point of this.
Very true. I also think the Christmas scene made a point of this. Sherlock chooses his few, and as soon as Molly arrives, we see that she ISN'T one of his chosen few... and I think that's why Sherlock can't see that Molly has chosen HIM. But, that's sort of tangential and beside the point...or maybe it's not? I'm not sure where I was going with this thought.
That’s a point that has done, and continues do a lot of damage I think, the belief that nakedness is automatically sexual.
Indeed. I often wonder how society would be different if we never moved north and put on clothes. :P
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It baffles me, saddens me and makes me angry how people can’t just be taken for who they are and has to be judged and held up to a specific standard, women especially. And the one standard in anything but, and if women can never be a dominatrix, a mother, a school teacher, a lover, or any other thing people perceive as being degrading because women are often put in those boxes then we’ll just continue as we are. I agree that women in general needs to be given larger roles, and better ones in many cases, but that will do little if any role will be only be seen and understood by one or two factors regarding that role and not the character as a person. If all a person sees is the dominatrix in Irene they’re missing out, she’s so much more than that, but people are blinded by that one aspect of her.
Couldn't have said it better myself. It saddens me the most that WOMEN are often the ones judging and holding up other women to a specific standard. The worst thing you can do to someone is not allow them to be human - and that includes wanting to turn them into some sort of Ideal. Irene should be allowed to have faults, (just as I have faults and you have faults, and Sherlock has faults,) without being accused of representing her entire gender poorly.
I think it’s clear that Sherlock chooses who he spends time with within a clear set of ground rules, he only has patience to deal with a few people and the scene in Mrs Hudson’s kitchen made a point of this.
Very true. I also think the Christmas scene made a point of this. Sherlock chooses his few, and as soon as Molly arrives, we see that she ISN'T one of his chosen few... and I think that's why Sherlock can't see that Molly has chosen HIM. But, that's sort of tangential and beside the point...or maybe it's not? I'm not sure where I was going with this thought.
That’s a point that has done, and continues do a lot of damage I think, the belief that nakedness is automatically sexual.
Indeed. I often wonder how society would be different if we never moved north and put on clothes. :P