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

I don’t have a dog in the Doctor Who discussion really, but I do think it’s a shame that a role-model has been taken away from young boys

Won’t someone think of the poor, poor young boys who will now have not a single positive male role model in the whole of popular entertainment! How can they do this to the young booooys????

Won’t somebody think of the children?????????

Bad things that have happened on Doctor Who (and spin offs)
Technological mind rape, Implied or visible orifice invasion, mind control, aliens eating body fat, pollution controls making things better for the incoming invasion, forced sacrifice of self for greater good, treachery, betrayal, gestalt organisms gone bad, fish vampires, sea monsters that eat people and shit rocket fuel, sentient graffiti that worked out how to eat people, genocide, homicide, hands cut off, machinery becoming human, humans becoming machinery, fascists getting their deserved punishment (again and again and again) …

and the one thing that made them stop watching is “Doctor Who is going to be a woman”. Talk about missing the point of a series entirely.

As a long time Doctor Who fan (starting with Tom Baker, and I’ve gone back to watch some of the earlier shows, too), I approve of this “change”.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/886189206300655616

“I took Daily Mail comments from people angry about a possible Female Dr Who and turned them into episode titles for the new series”.

(My favorite is “NOBODY WANTS A TARDIS FULL OF BRAS”.)

I’m no Whovian, but I seem to recall something about a female Master, and seem to not recall a lot of outcry (although that was before my mammoth hunting days, so I probably just never noticed it).

(Spoilers for DW restart season 9/10)
They do seem to have missed “Missy” the female Master character, but she was played as being evil, they probably figured she was what they always thought women were. A nemesis of the Doctor becoming female was the way things “should be” for MRAs/etc. Most actual fans just took it as “The Master is a evil conniving trickster, so changing apparent sex to fool the Doctor is just what he might try”

Double standards, etc. etc.

It’s not amusing, it’s painful. If they weren’t so good at logical phallusies [:-)] and inconsistency, we might actually have a working political system.

They’ve gone all the way to, “More college-educated people support Democrats, so college education is bad for the country”

Soooooo, does this new Doctor mean that the pretty-strongly-implied Doctor/Master romantic pairing might stop being subtext and become text?

Inquiring minds want to know.

ETA: Especially if they acknowledge that it’s been there through all of their respective incarnations….

@Gijoel:

Personally I’m disappointed. I would have preferred an older woman. It seems inevitable that they’ll jam some godawful love story, probably between her and Bill. Bill will be turned into a simpering idiot who will be constantly yearning for the doctor’s touch.

Without getting into spoilers, please believe me when I say, I am 100% confident that will not happen. (And no, Bill aten’t dead.)

@Skiriki: Whenever I see someone saying “Stephen Moffat ruined Doctor Who!” I wonder what show they’ve been watching thinking it’s Doctor Who, because his entire run is on the whole pretty damn excellent, IMO.

EDIT: And hey listen, I’ve sat through some real bad episodes, but my bar is a lot higher than “didn’t strangle the companion this time.”

The thirteenth and final Doctor Who is going to be female? And people are acting like it’s unfair?

Never before has this been more appropriate:

I try to stay amused if I can. There’s a lot you can’t control, so you need to keep going with what you can control and keep yourself safe and healthy. I’ve had to work at not catastrophizing.

@Falconer Glob I hope so. I really like Bill the way she is. Being in a relationship with the Doctor would be like being in a relationship with a god. Not good for anyone, even if you are a nun.

I’ve only watched up to the third episode of this season.

The TARDIS can’t be full of bras. The moment it was full of bras it would grow a new room and it would be called the Additional Bra Annex. (Or, knowing the names of various TARDIS features, the Quotidian Fold Nexus.)

I too lament the lack of a role model for boys, given that since they have so few male role models, it would be condescending to tell them they could try emulating a woman. I mean, if they had a lot of male role models in every form of media, then perhaps they should bloody well try empathising with a non-male point of view, but since all they have is Bond, the Doctor, and Doctor Benjamin McLane Spock, this is a terrible blow to them.

Also: “So patronising to women to be chosen due to political correctness. No room for merit and talent if PC comes first.” The age-old lament of “if you people would just WAIT for this to happen NATURALLY, which it didn’t in this case because murmur murmur murmur cosmic rays, it would have been so much better and everyone would have accepted it!” Most recently despicably shown in the Roberts dissent to same sex marriage, in which he deplored how gay people had lost the chance to gently convince people of their cause rather than to employ the tyranny of the courts, this business was old when Dr. King wrote “For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” … This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.”” (Excised a bit that was specific to Dr. King’s specific struggle.) Come to think of it, it was almost certainly old when the first lungfish gasped its way onto the beachfront.

It’s DOCTOR, not Dr, Who, and MISTER Spock, not Dr. Spock.

Fekkin’ fake geek boys