[ SECRET POST #4994 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4994 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

In one of the stories Sherlock waxes lyrical about how lovely roses are so he absolutely would know the secret language of flowers. Sherlock is a little...dismissive of women so I think he has a more 'traditional' (for a Victorian) view.

Mycroft is a bit of a mystery because there's very little information about him in the books. He's a civil servant and there were women working for the civil service and I imagine he might have clocked that women made good spies (maids can come and go from rooms and no one pays them any mind) but it's hard to say what Mycroft's attitude towards women is.

[(Anonymous)]

Yet one of the few women to earn his admiration (THE woman, in fact) is extremely unconventional...

[(Anonymous)]

I think to him she's sort of the exception that proves the rule. He goes into the case expecting it to be super easy because she's a woman, he completely underestimates her because she's a woman. If he'd gone into the case believing she was in any way equal to him, I think the case would have had a completely different ending.

Everyone fixates on Irene Adler and forgets about Violet Hunter, who Watson was disappointed that Holmes didn't get together with...