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

none of these posts are well-written or imaginative, which is what you would expect from sci-fi fans

Oh, my sweet child of summer.

I really liked nequams idea about a Dr spending a few episodes figuring out their gender. I bet you could shoehorn in a lot of really funny social commentary about gender expectations

Fishy Goat:. This discussion actually came up with one ofy cousins today and she actually said “But is she a ginger?” on being told a woman was the new doctor…

Even though I stopped watching way back when a set of stairs was the best defense against a dalek, I still think it’s great they have a female time lord. I’m only wondering why it took so long.

Next is Caitlyn Jenner as Dr. Spock

She’s going to become a famous pediatrician?

@THiaT: I was rather hoping the first female Doctor would be Catherine Tate for those reasons…

https://mobile.twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/886652944350941184
*snerk*

@Lindsay
Somebody take my money!

Welp, this is my favorite “oh snap” moment:

http://i.imgur.com/TgeS5cG.png

Like, does the Doctor even have genitalia? Or even nipples and a belly-button? The Doctor tends to wear a lot of clothes. There could be anything under there.

@ Axecaliber

IKR?!

(I’m biased. I think Rooker should be in everything.)

Marx didn’t write much about feminism. Marxism became much more popular among the left after Louis Napoleon’s coup, partly because Marx claimed his theories explained why both Napoleons took power after a revolution. The main idea is that revolutionaries need to “smash” the organs of the state that protect the bourgeoisie (needless to say, that has never worked well).

Mao Zedong took that a step further by claiming that a new bourgeoisie could emerge within the ruling Communist Party, so you need a continual cultural struggle against it. Maybe you could call Maoism uber-political correctness in a sense. You also have Cultural Hegemony from Antonio Gramsci and the Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) from Louis Althusser, which are both very complicated modifications of Marx’s theory that (sarcasm) even a really smart person like Jordan Peterson can’t understand very well (end sarcasm).

I sort of doubt the people who originally wanted the Doctor to have a female regeneration in the 1970’s were reading a lot of Gramsci and Althusser. (sarcasm) But they were to the left of the people who want AI gods to involuntarily sterilize all the genetically inferior people, so who knows? (end sarcasm)

I just came to cast my vote for Doctor Who 2027 – Cultural Marxism Edition.

Dr Who has always been against the ultra right-wing (and ultra left-wing, too). Multiple stories about how Daleks (who have an emperor), and Cybermen (who have a strict hierarchy) always lose in the end. How long has it taken these idiots to realize that? Apparently 50+ years, and an announcement that the main character is changing apparent sex.

Strong female leads since at least Sarah Jane Smith and Romana, and others I haven’t seen since I didn’t watch much past Tom Baker until recently. Social commentary from day one, even in the early years in “historical tourism” style. SciFi has always had social commentary.

I’ll also never look around a plumbing supply store the same way ever again. Wait, that’s the arms of the Dominators’ robots! That’s part of a Dalek! There’s part of the ray gun from, well, almost every early episode that had a ray gun.

There’s a scientist who claims to have figured out why Napoleon’s revolution happened … and also why Trump happened.

http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/

The short of it is, most civilizations periodically produce a surfeit of ambitious ladder-climbers, more than the upper levels of the socioeconomic pyramid can absorb. This intensifies competition in the upper echelons of society, until norms of fairness and civility break down.

One first gets “let them eat cake”ism (present-day form being neoliberalism) as these “elites” try to maintain their lifestyles, despite their increased numbers, by squeezing the working classes. It escalates to uncouthness in the upper ranks (alt-right and Trump indicate we’ve reached that point now) along with increasingly cutthroat competition at the top (the sabotage of the Sanders primary campaign was bad; the various dead Russians turning up peripheral to the Trump campaign indicate that the level of viciousness to the competition on the Republican side may have been a lot worse).

Usually there is eventually serious violence (last time it happened in the US it culminated in the Civil War). There seems to be actual empirical data backing this theory up, and peer reviewed articles.

On the other hand, the author also likes to use his blog to push paleo as a “one size fits all” diet, which sort of problematic behavior was recently being discussed on this site. Also, notorious racists JayMan and hbd_chick have occasionally commented there, mostly pushing the former’s blog, though I’m not aware that Turchin has done anything to encourage them or expressed any kind of approval of their views. Needless to say, seeing them turn up there raised my eyebrows.

So you may want to take everything there that’s not backed by empirical data with a grain of salt, though, AFAICT his own politics are mildly progressive if anything.