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

Witness the Manbaby Meltdown. I don’t know whether to laugh or puke.
I’m not sure what century some of these idiots are living in, but there have been female doctors and male nurses for many decades now.

Less than one quarter of people in the US who apply to any medical school get accepted and the curriculum is more rigorous than in the past. Nursing school and Doctor of Nursing practice programs are easier to get into and less rigorous*, so more men are going into nursing. More women are becoming medical doctors because women tend to do very well in school when you deal with discrimination and harassment seriously. The main disparity is that men are more likely to have their Ph.D. work recognized because that allows more bias and subjectivity. Men and women do equally well in STEM up through graduate courses.

* The programs are still rigorous, but it’s not quite the extreme rigor you’d get in medical school and the board exams.

Honestly, I’m unfamiliar with Jodie Whittaker, but As always, I’m cautiously optimistic, but reserving judgment until she actually gets some decent amount of screen time. I’d say it’s already worth it just because of the number of misogynists saying they’ll stop watching, because they can fuck right off out of the fandom. What is encouraging as well is the support Whittaker has recieved from various other people who were significant to the series, including Colin Baker, Freema Agyeman, Alex Kingston and Peter Capaldi.
I should note at this point that I’m quite a fan of Doctor Who, both classic and modern.

@C Williams:

I was going to make a point but then I remembered that Martha Jones was just a medical student.

I think she was a qualified MD in later episodes.

@Roadkill_Rabbit:

he’s Mr Spock. Get your geek info right.

Well, technically he’s just Spock. He just gets called “Mr” a lot by racist Starfleet people. What would that title even mean to an alien?

OK, no more geek pedantry 😉

@Fujimoto:

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

I was going to link to the Daily Mail comments but couldn’t bear to.

As usual, the main thing we can learn from all this is that:

a) We should never read the Daily Mail comments and
b) We inevitably will.

Twitter is surely worse but the DM comments are triple distilled.

A male Mary Poppins? Go for it. That would also be an example of Time Lord gender changes because everyone already knows that Mary Poppins is a Time Lord.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/16ok6d/mary_poppins_is_a_time_lord/

I love how these manbabies refuse to see a female Doctor as a role model. As if girls don’t have to grow up viewing male pop culture heroes as role models because there’s such a comparative dearth of women.

Human empathy: too much work, apparently.

Then again, if you don’t view women as fully human in the first place, I guess it would be quite the challenge, now wouldn’t it.

@Matchstick
If we’re going that route, there have been, according to Doctor Who Magazine (issue 462), 67 Doctors. This includes the Fatal Death Doctors, but also various ‘Doctors’ in other comedy sketches, Scream of the Shalka and, obviously, the Dalek movies.

I think I’ve got it. These people are time-travellers. One of the Doctor’s enemies has transported a load of people from the past, from a time when “birds aren’t smart enough to be doctors” wasn’t immediately refuted by everyday experience, a time when jokes about lady drivers weren’t tired as hell, times when references to Pretty Woman and Mary Poppins seemed up to date.

The trouble with this theory is that the Daily Mail has always been a wormhole into the past.

@Alan Robertshaw
Yeah, I’d heard about that. It seems like an interesting way to link it in.

@ Nathan

You’re forgetting the Morbius Doctors. 🙂

“Actually, in TOS at the very least, he holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and thus should in formal circumstances be referred to accordingly.”

Only in Only in Starfleet-related situations, presumably. But hardly anyone was referred to by rank in TOS, for some reason, presumably a Roddenberry thing.

Except, for some reason, for Yeoman Rand, although Yeoman is a job more than a rank. And sometimes when Kirk was telling people off.

And then there’s the terribly misandrist fact that Starfleet refers (or referred) to female officers as “Mr.” (eg, “Mr. Saavik”). Are men of the future not allowed EVEN ONE title that doesn’t have cooties all over it?

@Moggie:
If I understand correctly, what you’re saying is that:
– a time portal to the past has opened;
– the people coming through have taken over the country;
– they’re doing it in a genteel way;
– they’re terrified of the Doctor.

This isn’t exactly evidence against us living in a Doctor Who episode.

@Nathan

she is the 13th actor to play the character

Except there are 14 different people in the list you posted.

I definitely agree that depending how you want to count it you can get radically different numbers (should we include the Valeyard ?) but I can’t see any way to get 13 unless John Hurt doesn’t count, in which case why does Paul McGann ? 🙂

But back at the plot, personally I suspect that almost everyone complaining about the new casting have never watched the show because they consider it “SJW Propaganda” (which it undoubtedly is in the best way 🙂 )