The best worst reactions to the news that the next Doctor Who will be a woman

I was going to make a point but then I remembered that Martha Jones was just a medical student.
*grumbles*
still, what a bunch of whiners.

I have half an impulse to jump into their whining with ‘But she’s not ginger!! Won’t someone think of the gingers?!?

And, yeah, after looking at an image from the show on another thread, it looks like a time lord’s regeneration can normally change genders. Sheesh.

My favourite comment is the Fake Geek Boy who wrote *Dr Spock*; he’s Mr Spock. Get your geek info right.

Thank you for writing this & making a selection of the most idiotic, ignorant, misogynistic Tweets. I’m a huge Doctor Who fan & if I learned one thing from watching the show, this is it: Doctor Who has always been, since the beginning, the show that teaches us about kindness, tolerance & diversity. If you are pissed off by the first female Doctor, don’t you dare call yourself a fan. Girls need more strong, brilliant, independent role models. Girls need to know that a girl or a woman, too, can be that wonderful, brilliant, kind, regenerating alien who travels through time & space in a blue police box & saves the day. Not only do the girls need that, they bloody well deserve that.

They aren’t as bad as I was expecting, but I expect there is much worse to come.

A female Doctor Who would be the same as making a male Mary Poppins.

Like, half the internet right now is all, “MICHAEL ROOKER BETTER BE IN THE NEW MARY POPPINS.” Try to keep up, Sparky.

http://i.imgur.com/8UtUVth.jpg

Time Lords being women not an issue, 50 years of tradition out the window is

Because we all know how consistent Dr. Who has been over the years! No retrofitting at all, nuh uh!

@Diego: at one point, someone was saying they would have liked to see Tilda Swinton as the new Doctor, which led me to this idea: given that she has done quite a lot of androgynously/cross-gender cast roles, what if she starts out as a Doctor who spends an episode or two trying to decide what gender they ultimately are?

@Nequam

Hmm not sure how to feel about Swinton after the whole fiasco with Margaret Cho.

The wifi in our vacation cottage was reset just as I tapped the “Submit Comment” button, so I’ll try again: is there any reason to look at Don Vibes’ “Doctor Who in 2027” image? For someone who doesn’t currently want to destroy all life with a mechanical horror, and who would like to go on not wanting that?

Birds aren’t smart enough to be doctors

Tell that to the “bird” who did my first pelvic exam (she was a BROWN bird, no less). For that matter, tell it to Dr. Emily Stowe. Here in Canada, women have been doctors since 100 years before I was born. Which is also about 100 years before Doctor Who.

Fuck you BBC. Fuck you lefties. You are in the minority. The BBC has been taken over by leftists. Can’t wait for the show to fail.

Hope you’re not holding your breath there, “mate”.

Doctor Who is now a woman. Must have had genital reassignment surgery. BBC continuing it’s cultural Marxism.

I see an apostrophe needing amputation there. Also, Marx never wrote a word about culture. He confined himself to politics and economics.

But whatever. I’m sure you’re just another unsung hero of undiscovered intellect, sadly rotting on a barstool in a hole-in-the-wall pub in some disreputable district or other.

“Doctor Who” what’s the deal? Pushing the “gender fluidity” narrative now? Remember when entertainment wasn’t social engineering propaganda

Hate to break it to you, son, but “only men can be doctors, women have to be housewives or nurses”, a common old TV trope, IS social engineering propaganda. From the 1950s, when women “had” to be shoved out of well-paying jobs so men could follow the social engineering propaganda to be breadwinners again.

This is why I gave up watching libt*rd movies and TV shows. A female Doctor? What a joke. You just killed a classic TV show.

I’m sure they’ll miss you terribly. In fact, they’ll miss you so much they’ll never even notice you slamming your little dollhouse door and stamping your tiny feet.

This woman Doctor Who thing feels like another loss for reason and another win for the regressive left tbh

Snurk. I’m trying to parse the “reason” of someone with a feminine name who signs herself “I am Ian Malcolm” (I’m sorry, who the hell is that?)

Also, there is no “regressive left”. If you are regressive, you are on the right. Full stop. But please, try to convince us of your superior reason a little harder.

Doctor Who officially ruined. Time Lords being women not an issue, 50 years of tradition out the window is. What next 007 being Janette Bond

Now THERE’s an idea. The franchise might actually become interesting if that happens. Could we also have a Mr. Moneypenny, please?

A female Doctor Who would be the same as making a male Mary Poppins.

A manny nanny? Oh myyyy. That would be interesting, too!

Let’s replace Julia Roberts pretty woman for pretty bloke

Yes, let’s! I’m so sick of this tired old “prince rescues Cinderella” trope anyway.

(Has anyone yet suggested a gender-swapped Pygmaliana, or perhaps a My Fair Laddie? If not — DIBS!)

If no one’s seen it yet, here are angry Daily Mail comments turned into Doctor Who episode titles.

I heard the BBC higher-ups are pretty much all Tories now. Looks like the whiners won’t be happy until the BBC is run by members of the BNP or something.

They’re griping about the gender of an alien time traveler who is more than a 1000 years old and the central character of a show that has featured both a lesbian lizard person married to a human and a semi-immortal, omnisexual soldier who evolved into a giant face in a jar after a million years. The show where the semi-sentient spaceship/time machine takes the hero not where they want to go but where they need to go and the most iconic villains are fascist squids locked inside giant pepper pots and brains encased in genderless robot bodies. Somehow casting a single woman as the lead role of a show over 50-years old is where the fanboys draw the line.

I’ll just stick this here.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/8052694/How-Doctor-Who-nearly-became-the-Time-Lady.html