Hey, #indepedent what’s the point of this article? To tell us that boys will be taught lessons like being non-violent only if the main character is male? To say that Gillan and Kingston and Agyeman are heroes and companions, emphasis in companions?

I legitimately cannot take this article seriously based on the title. “Some feminists?” You mean Tennant and Smith themselves? You mean the women you refer as “heroes” later? Why a female Doctor Who doesn’t seem reasonable enough, when the master has regenareted into a woman? Because then it would be a woman show? Because then the companion would have to be a guy, or even another girl and that would make it so boring because female friendships are nothing like the male ones, right? You say you’ve been watching the show for six years, I read: I know knothing about the Doctor Who as a culture other than watching a bunch of episodes. I know nothing about the audios and the books and the Sarah Jane adventures and Romana. A female doctor is imperative but it won’t happen now. I know that and I still fight for it because someone has to. Because saying that young boys can only learn from a male doctor and put yourself above feminism is rediculous and I don’t care if you are a woman or a man or anything in between really. DOCTOR IS A NONBINARY CHARACTER. IT’S A FUCKING ALIEN. WE SHOULD ADRESS THE DOCTOR WITH THEY/THEM PRONOUNS AND REALLY PORTRAY THEM AS GENDERLESS. NOT A WOMAN, NOT A MAN. IT HAPPENED IN STAR TREK. IT CAN HAPPEN HERE. GENDER IS A CONSTRUCTION. THE WHOLE POINT OF DOCTOR WHO SINCE 1963 IS THAT EVERYTHING IS IN OUR HANDS, ALL OF TIME AND SPACE EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED OR EVER WILL. Doctor who is a show about the future and the past, about history. About getting better and better and better. So don’t write articles about how MANLY an alien must be so boys can learn. Don’t tell me that Clara Oswald was a female hero companion. GIVE WOMEN SCREENTIME. GIVE NONBINARY PEOPLE SCREEN TIME. GIVE MEN ACTUAL PLOTS. That’s what will teach kids lessons.So, don’t make this about feminism and how “we cannot hold ourselves and want Bond a woman and the Doctor a woman”. I know fifty british actresses that would be better than every man who has taken these roles before. And you do too.

(P.S. not wanting a female Doctor because she is going to be female, is like not wanting Idris Elba as Bond because he is black. Which you don’t, probably.)

