Who cares if the doctor is a female, she will be gone just when you start getting used to her like all the rest as the BBC continues playing idiot musical chairs doctor game in its bid to destroy the franchise once and for all.

Oh yes I am sorry, I should elaborate.

It doesn't suffice to say "i am no racist" or "i am no sexist" just because it sounds cool and all the heroes of star trek say it.

When somebody advocates crushing a whole population based on it deserving it as a whole ("not greeks, but greece, totally different" - yeah, the same people die), because of some intricate economic mistakes and misbehaviours of its government, it's essentializing a population with indiscriminate murderous consequences.

When someone considers that there is a personality barrier between two sexes, with no overlap and with more significant differences between these two categories than within them, to the point where a same character could never be written as a male and a female (or that no prewritten character could stay credible with a gender change), it's profound gender determinism.

But realising this would require to think a bit about what is said and felt, think a bit of the implications, look at oneself, and this is completely impossible behind the self-representations that completely preclude the validity of any criticism.

And that's what it is about. Absolute zero reflexivity, because apparently selecting self-descriptive labels is sufficient. And questioning this self-representation is just blasphematory.

So yeah, you can write this down. Because superficial self-qualification with zero self-awareness is not the least issue of our societies.

But by that definition the Doctor must always be white because so far s/he has only been white. Do you see my point? I apologise for suggesting that you were already freaking out, I should have just said "does that mean you'll also dislike it". As for humanoid aliens conveniently having the same ethnicities as humans, that's just a consequence of them being played by pesky humans, who happen to have different ethnicities.
Clearly! We're all well aware that womens' brains overheat if they try and think!

Oh wait, that's bollocks. Unrealistic how?

Your broflake tears are delicious.

There are legitimate reasons to be skeptical of this casting choice right now. Jodie might be an excellent Doctor, Chibnall might do a legitimate job as head writer... but If you honestly think there's no chance this is a pandering, ideologically driven move, especially coming from the BBC, you're living in a dream world.

But you just dismissed me as sexist with that "broflake tears" remark, even though some of my all-time favourite movies feature strong female leads but whatever, keep building those strawmen and never try to understand what's wrong with the current social climate.

You trolling me again,give it a miss.

If the Doctor's corporeal form is supposed to make him instantly fit in and get his way easily, I think making him female in this day and age is actually the logical choice if you look at it from that angle.

I was talking about things other than appearance. I spoke about it in some other thread already, but long story short I think there are characters who should not be "race swapped" because it would actually change something important (for example Batman - he's supposed to come from old money, the Waynes are supposed to have been a leading family in Gotham since it's founding and that obviously wouldn't work if they were african american) and characters where it realy doesn't matter (Perry White is now being played by Laurence Fishburn and I'm perfectly all right with that, he's a good casting choice and I can't think of any reason Perry's race would matter).

When I speak of things that remaind consistant I don't just mean that the Doctor was refered to with male pronouns, or the impact gender has on character (which I think it definately does, but it's not the only or most important thing that does) but also the Doctors relationships. He is Susan's grandfather, River Song's husband, the man Rose fell in love with. It's easier for me to think of his new incarnation as the same guy, when I can still say none of that has changed, even if it never comes into play. And that doesn't mean to say that as a grandmother he wouldn't love Susan just as much or anything like that, but it's a different relationship.

You know, one of my favourite books ever is The Left Hand of Darkness. which is all about a race that is "ambisexual", with no fixed sex. It's a brilliant, beautiful, phenomal book. But obviously, it's characters are written with that ambisexuality in mind from the start, as is their culture. Doctor Who was written for 50 as male, nothing else. There was never even any suggestion of Time Lords' sex not being fixed untill very recently, and even then those were rather transparent ways of telling the audience "he can regenerate into a woman and it's canon so shut it!" than laying any decent groundwork for it.

No problem, and thank you for being reasonable.

I know. I just like it when, if they have to have different ethnicity, instead of being white, black and asian aliens are blue and green like Andorians or something like that. Like I said, it's not a real issue for me, just something I nitpick at. Like lizardwomen having boobs in Divinity: Dragon Commander.

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Hey, I remember that! Wasn't Watson her dog in that series?

Timelords retain their memories after regeneration but their personalities change so this makes me actually curious about sexual identity.
The male Doctors were atracted to females (straight) so in a gender swap is she a lesbian or by being straight does she become attracted to males?

The Doctor Who RPG is in a bundle over at Humble Bundle.

Hey, that's awesome! I'll grab it at once. Thanks.

Unfortunately there's very little chance I'll ever get to play it, but I'm still curious about it anyway.

You're the one who started talking about extreme feminist SJW agendas. I'm sorry, but I can't take any arguments you make seriously if you throw those kinds of terms around.