My answer - Wrong
Moffat claiming that it was an overwhelming success is competely ridicolous.
Please enjoy my argument that I put forward against some people on Youtube.
I would also just like to remind our viewers that my poll on this very website had 8 people against and non for.
There are a considerable amount of non-sexist people who are against a female Doctor who are Doctor Who fans
https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2232966/poll-do-you-agree-with-a-female-doctor/p1
The poll at the time of posting on the digital spy forum, which is where Doctor Who fans discuss episodes weekly, is 105 votes in favour and 102 against. Very close. I don't think anyone who isn't a fan of the show should make comments about it because they don't know enough. That goes for both sides of the argument. Yes Time Lords can change gender but that was only established in 2011 - before then no Time Lord had swapped gender and we had numerous Time Lords who regenerated before then
The Doctor - 11 incarnations, all male
The Master - 6 incarnations, all male
Boruca - 4 incanations, all male
Rommana - 6 incanations, all female (including the aborted ones in Destiny of the Daleks)
To suggest that it is random in universe for the Time Lords to change gender is ridiculous.
Since 2011 the Master and the General have swapped sex, the General stating that all his other bodies where female. Again not probability. Likewise it has been stated throughout the series that Time Lords always know who each other are, even if regeneration has occurred. The Doctor didn't recognise the Master when he was Missy for unknown reasons but it can be put down to the fact that he was no woman. Suggesting that this is something not expected amongest the Time Lord race
Doctor Who is also has not been sexist to women. The companion role has always been as main as the Doctor. Yes the Doctor is the one who pilots the TARDIS and knows all the information about the planets but the companion is the audience surrogate. The companions of modern who have all been strong female leads who have not stopped to tell the Doctor that he is wrong when he acts all alien. Swamp that round and the show will be called sexist.
Doctor Who has also said sexist comments to men in recent years.
The line from Hell Bent from the General: "Back to normal am I, only time I had been a man in that last body, how did I cope with all that ego?
And another line from River Song in the Husbands of River Song: "Stop thinking, you're a man it looks weird".
Thing is of course the decision to change the character to a woman was done for political correctness reasons. Steven Moffat, current showrunner of the show, stated in 2014 that when the Doctor will be a woman will be when the showrunner is looking for an actor to fit the role of the Doctor that they want and that person happens to be female. He stated that it wont just be someone looking for a woman. That is however what Chris Chibnall did.
If you took an established female character like Wonder Woman and changed her into a man would that be respected? You could say in response to that that Wonder Woman isn't a shape-shifting alien but I would respond with the same argument used against me in my argument for the Doctor "It's only fiction why couldn't the role be played by a man".
The Doctor's personality for me, and it is different for others, but for me one of the only character traits that remains for each regeneration is the kind old grandfatherly figure. That can not be displayed by a woman. Men and women are different and In my opinion it can't be portrayed by a woman. If men and women were the same surely there would be no point to change the character in the first place?
I am not against a non-white Doctor. I don't believe that there are any traits to either race and both would be fully capable of completing the job. However I would be against it if they decided to scrape all white actors just for political correctness.
I am not sexist and nor are most people who share my view. I am all for equality. I like Rey and Jyn from the new Star Wars films. However I would not like it if Han Solo was portrayed by a woman in the new Han Solo films. To reach equality there should be new female characters and shows around them instead of just replacing male ones.
And isn't just men who are against this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40626224
Are these women also sexist against their own gender?
Shows like the Last Leg are great but they need to get their facts straight before jumping in to a show that they don't really know much about. To treat fans in this way is disrespectful, especially because about half are against this decision, despite what Moffat says. The fans don't really matter in terms of viewing figures but they do for merchandise which brings in the money for the BBC.
If number 14 was a man then feminists would be outraged and would seem to forget that when it was the other way round it was sexist.
Sorry for the rant but I hate it when people call me sexist when I strongly believe I am not.
Of course there are sexist people but I don't think it is wrong to not like the decision. If the Doctor was another man and people complained about it they wouldn't be called sexist.
By giving women role models you take it away from many little boys who now think that they are not good enough to be the Doctor.
I won't see the no 13 as the Doctor just like I don't see Missy as the Master. I might like her character however.
As Colin Baker said "Can't role models be people", yes I am using his own argument against him.
Keep the Doctor male.
No more rants from now on, I hope
Sorry
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Friday, 28 July 2017
Overwhelmingly Received: Really? - Sci-Fi Debate - Female Doctor - Right or Wrong Decision
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