I am seeing the movie in 10 minutes so I'm just going to address the first point. The reasons why people hate Benedict Cumberbatch is basically summed up by:
1) Sherlock, and he did apparently say that he didn't think Elementary would work, but I haven't read up on the interview so I don't know what his language was.
2) he is close personal friends with Steven Moffat
3) The fact he was selected to play Khan
4) They think his face looks like putty (although I think that's more an expression of the first two).
So the tumblr hive mind has kind of taken those things to mean he's an unapologetic agent of the patriarchy. And, well, he kind of is as much as you would expect a white British boy to be. It's a combination of playing sexist characters, having sexist friends, and having all of those things taken to the extreme. Plus, a lot of people are genuinely angry about sexism, queerbaiting, and whitewashing and he happens to have a face that is involved in all of those issues in one form or another, so that's another component.
However I personally don't hate him (however, my criteria for hating actors is a pretty low bar to clear - do they believe in evolution? do they believe in gay marriage? have they hit their wife/girlfriend?), so I can see that it's also resulted in some rhetoric that I don't think is entirely fair and has turned into this sort of culture for shaming girls who are attracted to him? Which does bother me. While there's some really valid criticism there, I kind of think of him as "meh", honestly, and not really deserving of all the hate he gets.
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1) Sherlock, and he did apparently say that he didn't think Elementary would work, but I haven't read up on the interview so I don't know what his language was.
2) he is close personal friends with Steven Moffat
3) The fact he was selected to play Khan
4) They think his face looks like putty (although I think that's more an expression of the first two).
So the tumblr hive mind has kind of taken those things to mean he's an unapologetic agent of the patriarchy. And, well, he kind of is as much as you would expect a white British boy to be. It's a combination of playing sexist characters, having sexist friends, and having all of those things taken to the extreme. Plus, a lot of people are genuinely angry about sexism, queerbaiting, and whitewashing and he happens to have a face that is involved in all of those issues in one form or another, so that's another component.
However I personally don't hate him (however, my criteria for hating actors is a pretty low bar to clear - do they believe in evolution? do they believe in gay marriage? have they hit their wife/girlfriend?), so I can see that it's also resulted in some rhetoric that I don't think is entirely fair and has turned into this sort of culture for shaming girls who are attracted to him? Which does bother me. While there's some really valid criticism there, I kind of think of him as "meh", honestly, and not really deserving of all the hate he gets.