I read your post comparing Lucy Liu’s casting to the Hamlet movies, and I think you have a really good point, and I think the rest of the fandom is probably being little assholes about it, and I’m personally excited about the casting, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents: I think I will be peeved /if/ the writers create a relationship between Sherlock and Joan. And that’s because I don’t see it as (continued-)

I don’t see it as the writers “not seeing gender” in their consideration of whether or not a relationship is possible. I see it as, though it doesn’t matter which character, Hamlet or Horatio, is female, it /does/ matter that one of them is female and one of them is male, or else their relationship is only platonic. Which is heteronormative and problematic. If that makes sense?