Was Sherlock Holmes a misogynist?

Sure he was. Levi Throckmorton's denial based on the dictionary, works only in strength of semantics. After all, being associated with misogyny in the "Post- " culture, is as much a stigma as labels of racist, homophobe, etc. read more

Misogyny is described in the dictionary of medicine as a general contempt and distrust of women, and this characteristics are found in Sherlock Holmes( the original one), especially in the character by Moffat. read more

Sherlock writer Steven Moffat has previously denied that he’s a misogynist during a Q&A session. He said: ‘I think it’s one thing to criticise a programme and another thing to invent motives out of amateur psychology for the writer and then accuse him of having those feelings. read more

The series opener of Sherlock – watched live by almost 10 million people – updated Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia, the short story in which Holmes is, unusually, outwitted by an acute American adventuress in possession of a compromising picture of the Bohemian king. read more