[ SECRET POST #2519 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2519 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

There are a few other times where he says shit about women, mostly just snide comments about their habits and how they're vapid and fickle and impossible to understand. In The Dying Detective Watson says that although he was polite to them, he disliked and distrusted women in general. And then there's The Sign of Four, where Holmes is not keen on Watson getting married and talks some more shit about women there (which Watson describes as an "abominable sentiment" in his narration). Also, A Scandal in Bohemia implies his sexism decreased noticeably after the encounter with Irene Adler.

But for the most part, yeah -- he talks a big game about how women are silly and irrational and etc etc, but his actions towards them never match his words. He's always very respectful to them and never does the kind of stuff you'd expect a genuinely sexist person to do, like, say, assume they'll lose their heads in a crisis, or push them aside because they'll be useless in following his instructions, or dismiss their stories as hysteria or overexcitement. He rarely, if ever, actually does anything sexist.

[fenm]

Hell, I can think of a few times when he asks women to do dangerous things ("Copper Beeches", "Speckled Band"), relying on them to handle themselves in a crisis. These are not the actions of a man who thinks woman are weak or unstable.