On reflection this has really offended me actually. The entire plot of the film revolves around how the mother and her two daughetrs are dispossessed of their estate when their father dies because women could not inherent property. They are totally dependent on the kindness of male relatives and their neighbours. Despite the self-reliance and intelligence of our heroines they are not permitted to join a profession. Now I know we are all supposed to suspend our disbelief and believe that Sadie is a bloke - a particularly belligerent and misogynistic bloke, irritated by his wife and women in general. But we can't really do that because a) the actress cannot act and b) she does not even act like a bloke. Are we supposed to believe that Regency England believed that transwomen were women? That all a woman needed to do to inherit her fathers estate was to identify as a man? Even the Gender Recognition Act, passed in 2005, had a clause to deny women primogeniture, to right of the eldest male heir inherit his fathers estate. It tuns out all Elinor Dashwood needed to do was identify as a bloke and all her famalies troubles would be over. She and Marriane could just become lawyers or priests, or get a commission in the army. Instead they chose to sit on their arses all day, making daisy chains and lusting after cads and emotionally distant soilders.