lorelei76

What is hilarious is the rampant immaturity: which makes sense as most of these kids are just that, KIDS.

What's funny are the gifs and macros popping up re: the CBS Sherlock reboot.

What's not so amusing is the poorly hidden misogyny and racism at the news that Lucy Liu has been cast as Watson.

 

One stan made the assertion that Watson was all things awesome: doctor, soldier, brave, kind, etc. And s/he was appalled that a CHINESE WOMAN was cast. Because obviously, women, and chinese ones at that, can't embody all that s/he thinks Watson stands for.

 

Plenty of stans say "Just because I don't think a woman should be cast as Watson doesn't mean I'm sexist! And I have no problems with Lucy, it's just that...(insert justification here.)"

 

Look, you fools, yea it's totally sexist. Because you don't think a woman can do what the male actors who have portrayed Watson had done in previous Sherlock iterations.  I'm pretty sure that's textbook sexism right there. Honestly, I will never, ever get used to watching women pull another woman down.

 

And when idiot stans start whining about "I have no problems with Lucy Liu, I think she's a great actress but..."  sounds a hell of a lot like "I have no problems with people of color, but..."  

 

In short, I am going to ignore written posts on tumblr re: this CBS "Reboot" -- which I have plenty of OTHER reasons to be sceptical about -- because this amount of ignorant idiocy gives me serious heartburn.