[spoilers] Hermione Norris/Ros

[binkie]

Oh! guy lafleur, I knew there was a fair chance I'd just make you cross by commenting on that one part of a sentence

Of course, I'm not trying to suggest I can divine your motives and personality from a short string of words - and I hope I didn't write anything that implied that's what I was doing. I wasn't trying to characterise you as some kind of rampantly unthinking misogynist. I was just trying to draw attention to the extent to which certain words and expressions have taken on a valuative weight which, although not necessarily the intention of the user in any individual case, are nevertheless communicated by cultural transfer.

I wasn't having a go at you so much as the conclusion of the transfer which imputes irrelevance to the judgment of a woman when commenting on the value of a man outside the context of sexual selection. The same is equally true of a man commenting on the qualities of a woman outside base physical characteristics. I'm sure you have encountered this.

So, there we are: I don't know you (obviously). I'm certainly not "assuming what [you] felt". I'm identifying you as a victim of the vagaries of cultural transfer

Incidentally, I also thought Ros was a better, more decisive, leader than Lucas. There are plenty of explanations for why this might be. It could even come down to a competition as to which one of them was better able to carry off the tricky all-in-black-but-not-listening-to-Cradle-of-Filth look.