I once wrote a paper suggesting that Holmes doesn't trust women because his nanny-- the only "mother" he would have known-- left for another job when he was small. It happened a lot in his social class, and some people never got over it. He can appreciate women, but he doesn't think he understands them, and he's not getting emotionally involved again.
He's a man of his time and class... and he needed Irene Adler's smackdown. "He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late..."
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Linnea6
Date: 2011-03-12 11:32 pm (UTC)He's a man of his time and class... and he needed Irene Adler's smackdown. "He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late..."