[ SECRET POST #2643 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2643 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Classism in fandom

[(Anonymous)]

So many "happily ever after" stories involve the characters getting randomly rich and never having to lower themselves to interact with poor people again the way they did in canon.

A lot of Sherlock Holmes fic is quite open about portraying wealthy clients' problems more important than poor ones'.

Sherlock is 500 times worse than Sherlock Holmes, which is vaguely hilarious given that Sherlock Holmes was set in the uber-classist Victorian era.

So many AUs turning the characters into nobility or movie stars so they can have glamorous Downton Abbey upstairs angst instead of normal-person angst. And when it's "A is a duke. B is a prostitute. They fall in love." it's usually soooooooo patronizing.

I can't even list the amount of judgey "poor people should act like this, otherwise they're scum" leveled at the Weasleys.

When one half of an OTP is lower-class or uneducated, having them constantly worship and fall all over themselves consoling the higher-class or educated half with their manpain (even if the higher-class one is a woman -- women can have manpain too): Ron and Hermione, Starsky and Hutch, Tony and Steve, Batman and Nightwing...

A lot of this, especially in fic, is actually often very subtle and insidious, not overt, which is way worse than overt classism. Sometimes not even recognizable as such unless you read enough fic to start to pick up on odd patterns. Especially gross when comparing the various Doctor Who companions.

Re: Classism in fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Spot fucking on with Sherlock being worse than Sherlock Holmes in that area. There's things that would make even ACD spin in his grave.