The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries

[osprey_archer]

As I watched the pilot episode of The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, articles that I’ve read about Sherlock floated through my mind. Specifically, the articles where people argue that the audience would roundly reject a female character as snarky, immune to social convention, and borderline sociopathic as Sherlock

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[asakiyume]

My thumbs are as directionally confused as cordialcount's, though since it's you, and you don't have patience with heartless, self-centered characters unless they've got some strongly redeeming qualities, either in their character or else in a meta-sense, in the overall story, I guess this sounds good? For me it's the dismissiveness of the dull son that gets me--not that he's her son and she's dismissive (though, okay, I guess a little bit that, as well) but I just hate it when clever people know they're clever and despise dull people for being dull.

[osprey_archer]

Looking over the entry, it occurs to me that I should have included a "So these are Mrs. Bradley's redeeming qualities" section, although it's difficult to pin down without giving away most of the plot. I think it's one of those things that relies a lot on the actor's charisma - although there were 66 books in the series in the spawned the TV show, so maybe not

[asakiyume]

So the thing you saw was saying that [by and large female] writers of slash are writing about men because they don't like/aren't interested in female characters, and that this is because society as a whole doesn't like female characters? Because yeah, that statement seems arguable with on several points.

There's probably lots and lots and LOTS of different reasons why people write slash. One thing I've thought is that for female heterosexual cis writers, it lets them explore relationships and sex and emotions without there being any implications for themselves--it's like it can be undiluted and more intense maybe? You write slash--what do you think?

[osprey_archer]

There are many writers of slash who have issues with female characters, but it's definitely not universal. There's a continual state of soul-searching among more thoughtful slash fans about this, which I think is mostly a good thing, except when someone starts constructing justifications why it's totally consistent with their social justice stance that they don't write women (or people of color, or so on

[asakiyume]

Definitely post it as a post! It's fascinating and enlightening, and it would be interesting to see what other people think. I could link to it (only if you want