#GODDAMND HES FINE

[pinkyjulien]

[oul2001]

Thank you for pointing this out.

I was really really furious with what they did to Mycroft. I mean, do you really think the man cares he has a sister, or that said sister, god forbid, does not follow society rules?

I am also not very fond of what the BBC did to him, but they had a right direction - the man is super super smart. He is smarter than Sherlock, smarter than anyone. His thinking methods are like Sherlock's, but instead of micro he goes macro and sorta controls Britain, because in opposition to Sherlock, he looks for and sees the big directions society takes instead of those of one person at a time.

So he understands people, but he doesn't UNDERSTAND people. For him citizens are more of a folk he takes care of because everyone else are dumb af and SOMEONE has to ensure that ship doesn't sink.

Like, people are just so stupid they have to follow society rules to function. So if you want to have some peace and quite all you have to do is build a room where people are considered cool if they shut up and don't look at you while you read the goddamnd newspaper, discovering that your crazy lil brother has made himself a roommate quite a while ago, that said roommate is very likely to have a massive crash on your brother and that for some reason you had not heard about it before.

So Mycroft thinks both men and women are fricking stupid, and Sherlock is... fine, most of the time, he just follows his silly habits and now has a friend to encourage him and take care of him, so goody.

The thing is he doesn't really mind what his siblings do unless they are being normal-stupid or interrupt him. He definitely WON'T go all-over-the-top to make sure his sister becomes normal.

As for Sherlock... I think like in the Adler case, he will learn pretty quickly what are his sister's qualities, and if there will be a need of it, a direct explanation or a honest conversation will sort things out.

Also, just a reminder that at those times it's rather being overprotected than underprotected.

Random rant but I watched the first Enola Holmes movie last year with 0 expectations of it having anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, and I was uh. Right. But now that I’m reading the original stories I’m grouchy at the missed potential for actually useful commentary on period sexism.

Instead of making Mycroft a cartoonish villainous incarnation of violent “go ahead and whip my sister into shape” misogyny, why not explore canon Sherlock’s benevolent misogyny in an actually useful way?

I imagine that if Sherlock had a little sister, he’d be VERY intent on making sure she doesn’t fall prey to the kind of abuses he sees in his cases. He’d go out of his way to ensure her income isn’t reliant on relationships. But would absolutely overcorrect by being too nosy and too controlling and too Shovel-Talk Brother. His pitfall is underestimating women’s intellects, and would feel she’s not capable of looking out for herself or being an adequate judge of character. He can hate how society sabotages women’s safety and agency, and be patriarchal about his protectiveness at the same time.

But no, because any criticism of Victorian sexism has to stop at “corsets bad,” we get Random Buff Dude with Sherlock’s name and 0 similarities to the character, and “finishing schools are evil!!”