I’ve always seen it as a point of principle not to be offended if people imply you’re gay – so no, I’ve never given a. And just a couple of weeks ago, Freeman stated in an interview: In March, Graham Norton tried to embarrass Freeman with slash fan art on his talk show.

Cumberbatch has said he found it rather flattering. This is not exactly the first time the Sherlock actors have been confronted with racy fanfic or fan art. Journalists who tear down fandoms are doing the lord’s work, I swear. I mean that’s the reason that journalists keep doing this, right? Because fans are weird and live in basements and have no lives and should be locked away from the rest of society? They’re doing this to protect the rest of the human race, right? Earn themselves a pulitzer without having to go to a war torn country? A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.īut apparently that only applies if “dancing how she wants” doesn’t involve writing porn.

Moran had previously written things like:Īny action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. Reportedly multiple people saw Caitlin Moran “getting yelled at” after the event, and she’s probably not going to be invited to any more such events. The first several pages of the author’s tumblr blog are full of outpourings of support from fellow fans.

Thank you for tainting the one thing sometimes that gets me through the day when I have two screaming kids, someone’s drawn on the walls in their own poo, and I have to drive through peak hour traffic yet again because my husband’s forgotten his glasses for work. Thank you for humiliating me, taking my writing out of context without permission, belittling it and using it to embarrass actors who I deeply admire. To Caitlin? Thank you for spoiling something I found joy in. From all reports, the actors weren’t terribly pleased, and neither was the author of the fanfic, tumblr blogger mildredandbobbin: And for God only knows what reason, during this event she thought it would be hilarious to have Benedict and Martin read aloud from a “slash” (homoerotic) Sherlock fanfic. The London season 3 premiere event of Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, was emceed by feminist writer Caitlin Moran.

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