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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Professor Elsa Sjunneson, MA

      I'm not gonna go to bat for Doyle as a perfect progressive ally but I actually am pretty sure it was, to a degree, intended Holmes, multiple times, lectures Watson about how Watson isn't stupid but just imperceptive, he ignores people he's socially expected to ignorehttps://twitter.com/snarkbat/status/1298712492026155008 …

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      Professor Elsa Sjunneson, MA @snarkbat
      *continues to laugh* Okay but have you even READ the original Holmes? He does a whole lot of work for terrified single women in an era where no one believed them. I know it’s not what Doyle INTENDED but I see it. https://twitter.com/js_thrill/status/1298654465852157952 …
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

      The resolution of the very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet One that was still pretty fucking relevant when the BBC adapted it, although hopefully not quite to the same degree "You forgot there was one other person there -- the DRIVER OF THE CAB"

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

      The fact that Watson has spent just as much of his life in the company of cab drivers as Holmes but he never LOOKS at them, he never THINKS about them

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

      Holmes is supposedly a genius because he's a "master of disguise" and can blend in perfectly with working-class service people But like any member of the upper classes he's surrounded by those people constantly, and the only difference is he pays attention to them

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

      The issue of gender and feminism isn't quite the same thing, and Doyle goes out of his way to have Watson say he thinks Holmes "had no interest in women", in the prurient sense But yes, Holmes also demonstrates an unusual willingness to see things from women's POV

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

      A TON of the canon stories are Holmes stepping in to do something about a woman who's been wronged, in a situation where ordinarily no man would think it was any of his business

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

          Anyone remember how the bad guy Holmes personally despised most -- apparently even more than Moriarty -- was Charles Augustus Milverton, Britain's most prolific blackmailer Because of the sheer intimate cruelty of it, aimed specifically at women

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

          And it's when Milverton decides he's going to go ahead and expose one of his victims to make an example of her so he can keep his rates high for the others -- despite how this will destroy her life -- that Holmes decides he absolutely has to take the motherfucker down

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

          And then the ending of the story is a shaggy dog story! Holmes tries to get his hands on Milverton's file of dox but Milverton actually outsmarts him And then some random woman busts in at that moment and just pulls out a gun and shoots the bastard

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

          (The same shaggy dog ending as the 2000 film Shaft, where Shaft completely fails to get the racist murderer taken down in court but then the victim's mom just pulls out a gun and murders him in broad daylight and goes "ARREST ME")

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

          And Sherlock and Watson just let the woman go They're even willing to take the fall for it When Inspector Lestrade asks them about the murder case they're like "Nope can't help you"

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

          When he's like "The staff saw two suspicious guys on the grounds, one of them was this big guy with a gun" they're like "Oh that could be anybody, come on, Watson is a big guy with a gun" (This, by the way, is strong textual evidence that Movie Watson should look cool/badass)

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

          Holmes fandom, btw, takes this whole series of events as a hint that what actually happened was when Milverton smugly told Holmes how he'd foiled his plan Watson lost his temper and just pulled out his gun and shot him right there Then made up the lady as legal ass-covering

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020

          That's a good story, but I think I prefer the version where the lady killed him It's actually more satisfying

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