Anti-femme culture (and feminists aren’t immune to this) thinks the effort put into femme presentation is a waste of time and energy – or, at the very least, time and energy that could have been spent doing something more important. Anti-femme culture thinks “pretty” probably means “dumb” even when struggling against a culture obsessed with an impossibly narrow beauty standard. Anti-femme culture thinks you can’t do math AND do your nails.
We are humans! We contain multitudes! I do not think it is a problem that teenaged girls are interested in experimenting with presentation via fashion; I think it’s ridiculous and misogynist that they are ONLY encouraged to do that – and that boys don’t have the same freedom of expression.
Cumberbatch is tired. It’s a dark corner; a candle, a bowl of candied nuts, a sheaf of Sherlock posters on the table. He beams turquoise at every single person in the endless autograph line: “Come on up. Don’t be shy, hurry up. What’s your name? Okay, spell? Where are you from?” He’d said a million of thanks in the last hour and heard more. Thanks for thanks. Thanks for hurried confessions and for each naive, child-like, sincere offering—a drawing, a book, a pin (“I am Sherlocked” goes onto his white shirt, right over the heart). He holds hands, gives hugs, strokes shoulders. Signs old volumes of Conan Doyle, hats, teapots. Long strand of hair is falling, again and again, across his eyes. Laughing wrinkles laugh. He steals a cookie, a sip of water, breathes out: “I’m tired. I’m completely exhausted”, and immediately lights up again, to return the warmth and gratitude that can’t reach Sherlock onscreen.
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this editorial, on the PBS screening.
I don’t know why, but I have embarrassing girly tears in my eyes now.
But I’m pretty sure that even when (if) I’m elderly and dignified, I won’t regret having had a twentysomething’s celebrity crush, on this one.
(via adjustedfangirl)
it hink he’s one of the guys you will love no matter what and how old you get! when i get old i’ll say to my grandkids “i grew up with Backstreet Boys music and Benedict Cumberbatch movies/shows. It was the best childhood i could ask for.” Everytime my sister & i talk about the time she met him in London after watching Frankenstein (i would’ve met him but i was too sick to stay….if i stayed i’d have ended up puking in front of him…i was THAT sick) she ALWAYS says he’s THE MOST humble, down-to-earth, genuinely loving guy you could EVER meet!
(via benaddicts-sherlockians)
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