Martin Freeman’s Children.
So I noticed that the picture of Benedict Cumberbatch with Martin Freeman’s children has begun circulating again.
How many times must we repeat this message, Sherlockians?!
Those are not your children. They’re Martin’s children. And he and his partner, Amanda Abbington, were understandably upset that a fan had posted a snapshot of their kids online. They asked their fans to respect their need for privacy and remove the photos from Tumblr.
By all means, take as many photographs of Martin as you like, and reblog them to kingdom come. But reposting pictures of other people’s children against their expressed wishes is not only rude, it’s wrong.
If you consider yourself a fan of Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch or BBC’s Sherlock, I hope you’ll do the decent thing and not only delete the post from your page, but urge others to do so as well. It’s called common courtesy. Would you like a stranger to snap photos of your little ones and spread them across the internet for all kinds of creeps to point at and oggle over? I think not.
I believe in the Sherlock fandom. I believe the majority of you will do the right thing.
And to the individuals who continue to reblog that snapshot even though they’re fully aware of Martin’s request:
That is all.
