What's so bad about a female Doctor?
Sora2311
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What is everyone's problem with a female doctor, here are some good reasons why a female doctor would work
Reason 1. Sydney Newman thought it was good idea
Reason 2. Show that a female can be a strong leading character
Reason 3. Change the formula
Reason 4. Loads of people would watch to see if it would work
Reason 5. He/She can still change back to a man if it fails
Now lets all stop being sexist and welcome it for when it happens one day
Reason 1. Sydney Newman thought it was good idea
Reason 2. Show that a female can be a strong leading character
Reason 3. Change the formula
Reason 4. Loads of people would watch to see if it would work
Reason 5. He/She can still change back to a man if it fails
Now lets all stop being sexist and welcome it for when it happens one day
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I see people say "oh, we need more strong females on TV" all the time. Females are represented perfectly well, just as well as males. There are strong female leading characters on TV. Some people will always have a chip on their shoulder it seems.
So, not wanting a female Doctor makes one sexist? That's not a generalization at all...
Would you call me racist if i said i didn't want a black doctor
Only if it was because you disliked black people. If not, of course I wouldn't.
I don't dislike women, I just think a female Doctor would make the show feel like one of the many parodies on the subject.
As I said, it's just a generalization, and rather lazy, to suggest anybody against a female Doctor is sexist.
Nurse who?
Female's can be Doctor's too you know
Yes, they can but the Doctor is a male character.
Plus you don't need a female doctor to have a strong female lead. While maybe not the main character, the companion well written can show just that.
I would say yes that's racist
The Doctor isn't a "male character", The Doctor just happens to have been played by male actors before. Yeah, his original gender may have been male, but it's been shown that Time Lords can swap genders, and really who cares as long as it's acted well
I don't see why anyone has a problem with someone changing their gender in a show :rolleyes:
Transsexuals were originally one gender who changed into another - even though they were known by people who knew them for years, does that mean that it'd be wrong for them to change too?
River: Sweetie
Doctor: Darling
I mean't nothing by that i was just responding to the person who said people who don't want a female doctor aren't sexist
From what we've learnt on the show he as a Timelord could regenerate as either gender, and presumably any ethnicity or nationality, but as a character he is a rather eccentric white English male. He would lose that iconic imagery if he turned into a black Australian woman, for example.
It goes against the canon of the show. It has always been implied that male timelords stay male, and females stay female.
The Doctor knew the Rani, she was always a woman despite regenerating
Romana was a woman despite regenerating
The Master was a man, despite regenerating
So was Borusa
and the Doctor
and Omega
and Rassilon
and Azmael
Watch The Doctors Wife and get back to me
Oh and The Doctor's friend The Corsair... oh, wait.
Matt Smith's Doctor had a moment after regeneration where he thought he was a woman, so it is possible.
But my feeling is that as the Doctor is a fictional character, he should continue to fit the description of the character that we all recognise.
I understand what racist means. If you do not want a black playing a role, they only reason you give is the colour of their skin then that is racist. I can't understand how you can consider than not to be racist.
But both of those are recent 'inventions'
For the first 48 years of the TV what I said remained true for the Doctor Who universe as depicted on TV and in the books.
Then a script writer decided to just stick it in a script because it suited them to ignore all the years of 'Whoniverse' material that was already out there.