No, totally. She's really a progressive character for that time period. It's kind of mindblowing, and not in a good way, that a century later the presentation of the same character is actually LESS progressive. And don't get me started on the whole "I'm a lesbian until I fall for that special man" thing. It's true that sexuality can be very fluid, and yes there are people that identify as gay and lesbian that will discover later in their life that they are also attracted to the opposite sex, or at least one specific member of it. But frankly the presentation of that here was not good. It's a hard thing to do correctly, and it wasn't done correctly here. For one her feelings for Sherlock crippled her and made her a weaker character, and that should NOT happen.
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Date: 2012-01-03 10:14 pm (UTC)