Jodie Whittaker: Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord (bbc)

Thank you so much for telling me my place sir, where is m'manners? Shall I just go back to m' place in the kitchen m'lord. Shall I or can I go outside and hav m'vitals and see some sun while washing dries.

What complete garbage. Speculating about who would complain if Buffy was made a dude?

Last time I checked, Buffy doesn't regenerate. Why the hell would they recast her with a guy?

No, but you're fluent in it.

""A careful observer can pick up on ideological changes in a group or in a media communication so "openness and honesty" are not necessarily required or valid. "

What a demented load of tosh. It's not valid for her to be transparent about her outlook because you might possibly have anticipated them?"

No, it's valid but in the light of it serving an ideological agenda I would think it's validity is greatly lessened. My anticipating it is just being alert to the prevailing patterns in society which are real and factual.

"Completely paranoid reactionary nonsense to hearing stuff you really don't want to face in reality. By which I mean the fact that a female doctor will turn out successful and popular without any undue controversy.

People can make public whatever they like. Seriously. Jodie Whittaker being open does not preclude you or any other bozo from forming and having their own opinions. Your anxiety about that situation in light of Jodie's perfectly valid admissions is entirely your problem."

Hey, being paranoid is just being prepared. :) I acknowledge the reality of reactionary gender politics but I don't have to passively accept it. Speaking as a public person about politics makes Whittaker a political actor because such statements enter a realm of comparison and contest. Identifying publically as a feminist in: (a) a politically structured corporation which demands gender diversity as an ideological priority, ie. BBC, (b) a commercial world that acknowledges the power of female consumers and prioritises to serve their needs over men, eg. television entertainment, carries forth the meaning of wishing to force and control much like the reality of the Patriarchy. We don't know what she thinks about that but we do know what she says and that carries more weight and significance in the context of public discourse. I am not complaining about her convictions and values but what she intends to do or not do and the impact this will have on how the Doctor is written and played.

"By the way. She's talking about how she feels, as a feminist and a woman, an actor, a human etc, about winning the role. At not point does she state that the role needs to be more feminist."

Quoting Whittaker:
"It feels completely overwhelming, as a feminist, as a woman, as an actor, as a human, as someone who wants to continually push themselves and challenge themselves, and not be boxed in by what you're told you can and can't be."

So, it sounds here like she is advocating for simply not being limited by designated "female roles". I fully support that message. In the context of the "modernising" agenda of the Doctor Who leadership though and her enthusiasm about change for the sake of change her feminism could easily extent beyond simply the expectation of having the opportunity to play a traditionally male role. Was she hired to help push a "feminisation" agenda in Doctor Who? For me Doctor Who is about fun and interesting individuals not gender conflict.

Jesus Christ, that's a shit load of assumptions in one post. Perhaps you'd like to just come right out with it and say I hate women?

The point is that there are a lot of people claiming THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH FEMINISM, which it clearly does. You follow?

And to address your thinking that the doctor was always going to be a man in the past, I'm afraid your wrong there big boy. Women have been invited to and have auditioned in the past.

Let's be honest, you're just another sjw looking for an argument. Like all of them you're happy to shift the goal posts to suit your outrage. What I find hilarious is that installing a woman in the role the sjws have missed the point that a male doctor was already a great role model for feminism, perhaps even more important than having a woman in the role.

On the subject of two doctors, why not create a new character? Why go to such lengths to change canon just to get a woman in the role? Can women not be interesting and successful without climbing on the shoulders of men? Tell me again who the sexist is, little child?

Which words were put in your mouth?

Poor broflake can't handle people declaring their status as a human, as a woman, as an actor, as a feminist, never mind someone else's opinion.

In your opinion, which I'm supposed to handle, she should be silent about who she is. So go take a f uck to yourself.

By the way. It's not my argument. You clearly are a reactionary f ckng broflake. I mean, you are taking Whittaker's statement about herself as a statement about the creative intent or lack of it. And you're complaining about words being put in our mouth. Just shut up ya stupid wanker.

Who are you quoting with "change for the sake of change"? Yourself by the looks of it.

Who is apologizing? Nobody.

It's only being made a contest by you in your mind.

What Whittaker is acknowledging is the fact that in some people's eyes she WILL have to win their acceptance in the context of being a woman.

Jodie Whittaker is doing the exact same thing and expressing the exact same feelings of gratitude and excitement as her predecessors but also acknowledging and reassuring anyone who is anxious about the change in gender.

And there are people who social values will cause them to be anxious about this state of affairs. Whittaker doesn't need to keep her mouth shut about that context.

I don't think you were trying to denigrate her. The implication though is that it is necessary to scrutinise her in a way that people did not feel the same need to when it was any of those previous actors announced.

She's an actor. She has 49 credited roles to her name. A quick browse of the nature of those films/shows can put anyone's mind at ease as quickly as they did when it was any prior Doctor's turn (considering that it was not implied that they might have been cast on the strength of one genre-similar film role at that time, IIRC)

Attack The Block is probably the role that most Dr Who fans are going to be aware of. But preamturely limiting ourselves to what Dr Who fans will likely be readily aware of is a mistake.