It's one of those unfortunate implications things "Wow, feminists back then had all these superpowers and whatnot and it still took them that long to get the vote? I guess they weren't trying that hard"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It also doesn't hit the balance between modern liberal sensibilities and past liberal sensibilities. I think the books mostly do pretty well walking that line, so you get a sense of how the discourse has evolved since their time. The movie yanks things violently forward 140 years
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
Yeah the classic trope in these movies where someone is just like "As an apparent time traveler from the 21st century I think all of this society's values are stupid" and the whole society is just like "Gosh we've sure been made to look foolish"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
In this scenario Mycroft represents the monocle-popping fool blustering "MOST UNORTHODOX" but everybody else has seen the light so they ignore him till he harrumphs off to have a smoke or something
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
I hate that it's somehow become fanon that Mycroft is a judgmental conservative This is a guy who's literally so hopeless at social niceties in canon he founded a club where you're not allowed to talk at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I feel like he'd be default kind of conservative only in the sense that he's too lazy to learn any NEW social niceties and he'd be quite put out if the few he DID bother to learn turned out to be out of date
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
Yeah his main concern with Enola - or any other woman who impinged on his life - would be to get her out of his life so he could stop thinking about her as soon as possible
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Totally. He wants a place to put her so that he doesn't have to deal with her anymore, and fortunately Society has provided places like that, how convenient WHOOPS where'd she go
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
Yeah, if he were a little better at empathy and identifying with others he'd get why an environment like that would be intolerable for her - it would certainly be intolerable for him - but that's not his strong suit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite
Seeing things from other people's point of view is one of the many things he makes Sherlock do for him
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But anyway him being personally deeply concerned about his family's reputation is totally out of character from canon In canon he, himself, is the most embarrassing thing about his family's reputation, and that's taking into account the Sherlock's job is quite disreputable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite
Doyle/Watson describes the Diogenes Club as the social club of last resort for "all the least clubbable men in London" It's an incelpalooza in there
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