DeadManRising wrote:Personally, what annoys me the most about the pro-female Doctor crowd is the false sense of superiority they have and the insufferable air of self-righteousness a lot of them radiate. I've gotten into quite a few debates with these people over the past few months, and nearly all of them have this really smug and condescending attitude towards people like us that makes me want to gag.
They're "the true Doctor Who fans " because they'll stick with the show through thick and thin.
They're "mature and open-minded" for not rejecting a female Doctor.
They're not "stuck in the past" for embracing a female lead. Even though, like burrunjor said, a lot of these people barely even watch shows with female leads to begin with.
I've listened to hundreds of audio stories, read dozens of novels, read dozens of comics, seen all the movies, collected hundreds of pounds worth of merchandise, met actual members of the cast, and watched every single episode of both Classic and NuWho (including the reconstructions). But because I'm not happy with changing the main character's gender after 54 years and throwing decades of lore into the garbage, I'm not "a true Doctor Who fan".
Fuck you, you self-righteous little pricks.
Great post. There are 4 reasons that these people who want a female Doctor don't watch ANY female led shows.
1/ They just want to moan. For many of them like Whovian Feminism and Anita Sarkeesian their entire careers are based on complaining that this is sexist.
Look at Anita's reaction to a female Doctor Who? These are people who will look at something 1000000 different ways until they can find one ridiculous way it can be made to look sexist and then they'll run with that, as though its maker beats up women. Pretty much all of the Moffat is a sexist criticisms fell under this, like the Moffat is a sexist because he had posters where Capaldi looked forward and Jenna looked to the side.
Not joking
Problematic Posters For Doctor WhoThese people are ironically therefore the last on earth, even above a raving misogynist who would ever want to watch Xena, a show about two bisexual women, Buffy a show with a leading female protagonist, or Charmed with three female leads, or Once Upon A Time with a leading female hero and female villain/anti hero etc.
What could they moan about in those shows? Oh they'd probably dredge something up like "Xena is too sexy", completely ignoring her male counterparts like Hercules and Ares who weren't exactly played by big fat, baldy, sweaty guys. Still it wouldn't be as big a cause for them to rally behind, so instead they always go to male led shows like DW, Sherlock, etc.
2/ There is a huge element of spite involved too. Again look at tweets by Whovian Feminism or her articles. The misandry there is astounding. She wanted a female Doctor in the hopes of upsetting the male fans who didn't want it, as in her mind ALL male fans are entitled, privileged, shitlords.
“Supposedly well-meaning observers always like to come in and say that hardcore fans simply won’t accept a woman portraying the Doctor. This attitude does both the show and our fandom a disservice. While there is always a smattering of assholes to prove this type of attitude does exist, they aren’t even close to a majority. And even if it were true, we should not let the direction of the show be dictated by the worst of its fans. If a misogynistic jerk who disparagingly refers to a woman Doctor as “The Nurse” says he’ll quit watching the show, he’s exactly the type of fan we should be proud to piss off. I promise, plenty of new fans (especially ones with disposable income!) are waiting in the wings to take his place.”
Class snobbery at its finest.
3/They are cucked self loathing fanboys like Mr TARDIS, and they actually feel guilty for preferring male led series to female led ones. Obviously its not sexist if you happen ton prefer DW and Star Trek to Xena and Buffy. There can be so many reasons for why you prefer one show to another. These people however are so wrapped up in identity politics shit and probably know a blue haired, screaming harpie feminist, that they actually think its their own internalised misogyny that's the reason that they prefer Doctor and Star Trek to Xena and Buffy.
So they want to make DW and any other male led franchise they like feminised from top to bottom to ease their own "guilt" and when they accuse us of not liking anything starring a woman they are projecting their own stupid insecurities onto us.
4/ Its an ego thing. A lot of these people, particularly the men want to be seen as the modern day version of the guys who stood up for Kirk kissing Uhura (the great irony is that William Shatner HATES these cunts and feels that they are destroying sci fi and fantasy fandoms and was pro Gamer Gate too.
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So they try and twist this female Doctor thing into being a similar situation when its not. Back then representation was a daring thing to do, as our society was inherently racist. Nowadays however would anyone even notice or care if there was a black lead?
Red Dwarf has a black guy as its leading character does anyone care? Does anyone even notice that an interracial love story drives whole seasons of Red Dwarf (Lister and Kochanski).
However these people want it to be the 60s during the civil rights movement so they can appear to be the big liberal icons like Gene Roddenberry who fought against racism.
Neil Gaiman absolutely falls under this category. Look at this obnoxious quote.
I always feel like the wrong person to be asked when I get asked that question because people say, ‘Well how do you write such good female characters?’ And I go, ‘Well I write people.’ Approximately half of the people I know are female and they’re cool, and they’re interesting, and so, why wouldn’t I? I think the big thing to point out to people is, you know, possibly they should go and hang around with some women.
Thank you Neil Gaiman and Whovian Feminism for telling a sexist, stupid little pleb with not enough disposable income about why women are kick ass by chopping off Peter Capaldi's cock.
A large percentage of, not all, but a large percentage of the female Doctor brigade are the most hypocritical, obnoxious, conceited, bigots ever to disgrace a fandom, and the fact that they were allowed to vandalise and destroy a cultural icon like DW is beyond shameful.