Doctor Watson was a woman?

[robotech_master]

Rex Stout seemed to think so.

You have to admit, he makes some pretty good points.

Comments

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Only if one is thinking of a woman in the incredibly sexist context of the 1940s American urban middle-to-upper-class.

[masonk.livejournal.com]

No. No, I don't have to admit that at all.

[kjc.livejournal.com]

It is, actually, an interesting argument.

The acrostic is totally random, but rest is entertaining.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Blast! That's what I was going to say.

Word, anyway.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Note that nowhere in my response did I say anything about Holmes and Watson NOT being lovers. Although even that much is probably excessive.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Which was, oddly enough, still less so than Victorian England.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

In some ways, yes. It depends on which social stratum.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Probably - but that idea dates back a l-o-o-n-g way.

Personally, I see Holmes as asexual.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Yes, but a sexual what?

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Not touching that one with the proverbial barge pole.