madame thursdayREBLOG IF YOU WANTED TO PUNCH SALLY AND FUCKING ANDERSON IN THE FACE AT ANY POINT DURING THE EPISODE.
Uh, no thank you. I mean, I don’t much like how Sally is always calling Sherlock a freak, but in that last episode she was just doing her job. So was Anderson. Come on, guys, they had reasonable suspicion. Would you believe it if some person who had absolutely no training solved a difficult case from looking at one footprint?Yeah. Exactly. Especially if you thought that person was non-neurotypical in a way that meant they had a hard time caring about people (now, we all know Sherlock is not a psychopath, but Sally and Anderson don’t because they’re just regular police officers who’ve probably had very little training in psychology and they don’t really know Sherlock.)[gif removed]
Oh dear, it’s time to play, “Hate on the WoC who dared to challenge the beloved white male lead who is infallible and could never be wrong” in fandomland. A game we play so often.
And at times, I want to shake Sally’s hand and buy her a beverage of her choice. She’s not wrong to be suspicious of Sherlock and distrusting. Because while Sherlock gets to breeze in and out of crime scenes, saying and doing as he pleases, it’s people like her and Anderson who have to deal with the fall out. It’s people like her and Anderson who have to, say, get the terrified school marm a paper bag to breathe in once Sherlock has scared the shit out of her just to get a quick answer.
Let’s think about that for a moment. Sherlock sees a traumatized woman and because he’s impatient, he knowingly does things to terrify her just so she’ll answer quicker.
Oh, and also? Let’s not forget that one of the first interactions between them, Sherlock publicly slut shamed Sally in front of all her colleagues and tried to cut her down to size by exposing her private sexual relations with another consenting adult as a reason that she was some how inferior and wrong.
How many times do you have to watch someone be an absolute, self-absorbed, arrogant dickwad who will manipulate people any way he damn well pleases - either to make things easier for himself - before you get to be suspicious of them? Especially when evidence is sitting right in front of you. How many times do you have to hear someone talking about murder and death and rape and kidnapping like they’re the most wonderful things ever, sighing longingly over them and not caring that basically they’re wishing for someone, somewhere out there to suffer and die just to relieve them of BOREDOM before you’re allowed to believe that perhaps a person getting off on such things would, eventually, want more stimulation than just butting in on police cases could provide?
Let’s not forget, also, that many many MANY killers (serial or otherwise) try to participate in police investigations, especially of their own crimes, and focus on police work and forensics.
If you take five damn minutes to stop being so googly eyed over Sherlock and see things from her point of view, you realize that her reactions to Sherlock are not only valid and well founded, but a lot of them are Sherlock’s own damn fault.
I don’t think it was at all necessary to mention that card, since no one had mentioned it prior, but of course, THIS ^^.
Can I ask what card you’re referring to?
(Source: nerdishh)
