Victoria Coren: Judging a Book by its Gender and Race.

[sherlockholmes]

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[altro]

Go for it, guys.

[venusinthenight]

YES! \o/ Also: following the Tumblr like a BOSS. (My handle there is shellygrrl.)

[sherlockholmes]

It is a huge problem and dismissing or ignoring it -- like some BBC Sherlock fans seem to be doing a lot of lately -- really doesn't help matters.

[lamardeuse]

In a word: YES.

In two words: THANK YOU.

[sherlockholmes]

I realised the best way to combat the fucking idiots is to create the resource I wish existed.

[that_which]

To put it another way: if they do want to make a feminist statement, they should cast Lucy Liu as Holmes, not Watson.

Because it would make a feminist statement to castrate Holmes?

None of that makes any sense, but the thought that a female Watson is a mutilated male Watson robbed of his bleeding testicles and a female Holmes would be some kind of victory isn't even coherent on its own deranged terms.

[sherlockholmes]

Exactly. I think she's be just as rude and ignorant if it was an Asian-American Holmes.

[that_which]

Still, none of that is my favorite for pure Guardian troll thumbsucker op ed WTFery:

I'm a feminist. I'm as excited as the next man when it comes to the breaking of glass ceilings...

There are many reasons to love the Guardian. The Salon-style flamebaiting in their guest columns is not one of them.

[sherlockholmes]

ikr? Because that's what feminism is. Trying to sneak into the boy's club. She looks like an idiot, and that's all.