Umm... Straight is the default position for sexuality in society. Much like sighted is the default position. That doesn’t say that there are not blind people about it simply means one assumes someone is sighted till presented with evidence otherwise. Same would go with sexuality.

(Sigh) You make me wish I’d studied statistics. Polls from this decade are still showing that

And that’s sort of the thing with Holmes. It’s extremely Victorian, and part and parcel to that is two men of intellect and education having an abiding fondness for and admiration towards each other.

It’s not about being straight or gay, it’s the fact that fans are trying dictate that a platonic friendship being turned sexual. Plenty of actors in shows with plantonic opposite sex relationships have also complained when such “shipping” occurred.

Honestly, Kinja is terrible and there are too many replies to be able to tell which one you’re talking about, so I’m gonna assume I fucked up and leave it at that.

Are you seriously going to try to make the case that there aren’t toxic assholes in the fandom who have likely hurled all kinds of abuse at him? One needs only to look at the Twitter mentions of virtually any genre actor to see that it happens, a lot.

Almost as stupid as labelling someone ‘homophobic’ because they didn’t play a character as gay.

I dunno, it seems many, many actors take some issue with the overly sexualized fanfic of the characters they play. Maybe it’s just creepy to have people creating a sexual situation where there isn’t one? Maybe it’s insulting to work on a character only to have hordes of fans scream KISS!!1!! no matter what you do? I…

The original Sherlock stories were also better written. And the original Holmes’s powers of observations were more based more on his encyclopedic knowledge of everything rather than some sort of x-ray/microscopic vision that Sherlock-Sherlock seems to possess. It’s the difference between “well, I guess I could’ve…

Shame they couldn’t bring in a talented openly gay writer, like, say, Mark Gatiss, who might actually have some idea about what is or isn’t homophobic, to come in and write for the show. I’m sure all the straights around here know much better.

Freeman’s real life wife, Amanda Abbington, played his onscreen wife in Sherlock. Perhaps it’s understandable that he played the character straight in view of his affection for his actual (former) wife (if they wanted the character to be gay, it might have made sense not to cast his own partner as his wife)...but of…

Wanting to see yourself represented? Not crazy at all. Demanding that a show confirm your ‘ship when that isn’t what the authors or actors intend? Yeah, that’s pretty crazy.

Sherlock really stretches it to the breaking point, though. I mean, there’s an entire episode where not only is a major mystery not solved, but the writers deliberately make fun of the fans for attempting to solve it. Not to mention the “it was all a dream!” episode, in which Sherlock spends an hour and half…

“Minority” means “smaller part of the whole.” And gay people are only a tiny part of the whole population, IRL. To the extent that the general public thinks about the sexuality of fictional character at all, why wouldn’t the GP assume that any random character (whose sexuality isn’t front-and-center of his/her…

To be fair, the original Sherlock stories are pretty much the same thing.

Wanting to see yourself represented on TV and *demanding* that two established literary characters be gay now is two completely different things. Crazy TV shippers have taken all of the fun out of online TV discussion.

It’s so easy to criticise behind a keyboard and an anonymous username, but how do any of us here know that you’re as woke as you claim to be?

That was pretty well summarized by:

In all fairness, you could say the same about much of the source material, even if it is significantly better.

I liked Sherlock but eventually I realized that while it’s a show in which mysteries are “solved,” it’s not actually a mystery show. There’s never a sense that the viewer could solve the mystery on his or her own—some random crap happens until Sherlock breaks out his superpowers, casts a mystery solving spell, and…