#god I hope Fellowes was actively writing Carson as delusional

[eolewyn1010]

"You're not a creature of today, whereas I am."

. . .

This was just smugly said by Carson, the judgiest, most small-minded, image-obsessed, condescending, racist, sexist, homophobic, socially conceited, sex worker-hating, anti-egalitarian, anti-progressive snob of a character to ever have been written, the only one in this godforsaken house who's even more bigotted than Robert, to an outed homosexual who's regularly putting in an effort for his meek female co-worker to be taken seriously. This old sack of shit, who spends his evenings telling his wife that she should really learn how to make him a proper sandwich, thinks he is in any capacity a modern man of 1925 while he's actively yearning for ye olden days before the war, when women didn't yet have any such untoward ideas as getting jobs and owning property without asking a man's opinion first, and people still bowed into the mud before the lords and ladies he likes to brown-nose.

Excuse me. This is gonna take me a while to digest.