betterpinchme:

ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY

ACT LIKE AN INFLEXIBLE, CLOSE-MINDED SEXIST

SPOILER ALERT: Women aren’t lesser than men. This is the year 2012.

there are two ways of looking at this, though.

casting a woman for a strong lead character is a good thing.

casting a woman for a role because you are afraid of the homoerotic tension between two male characters is a bad thing.

i’m not into sherlock at all, but i know that feeling when you have a ~gay pairing~ in a series and one of them is replaced with the opposite sex because somebody thinks homosexuality is bad. i’m not saying that heterosexual tension doesn’t have the same credit, though.

on the other hand, i know that some people are only mad about this because they ARE inflexible sexists and think watson has to be a man because ~he’s always been a man!!~ and those people are fucking WRONG

tl;dr going “bam he’s now a woman now, no more gay! now they can be in love!” is just as bad as going “HE CAN ONLY BE A MAN, NO GIRLS ALLOWED”

(Source: superwhonightlocked)