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Dear Doctor Who fans who are still upset about the Doctor being a woman: I’m here to tell you that you’re mad at the wrong people. Why are you mad at Jodie Whittaker? What did Whittaker ever do?
Here is what Jodie Whittaker is not for being the new Doctor:
- It is not her fault for being Chibnall’s top choice for the new Doctor. On the day that Whittaker was announced, Chibnall told the Guardian that Whittaker had been his top choice for the new Doctor.
- She is not part of some scheme to ruin Doctor Who for future generations. Actually, she’s here to try to rejuvenate it, because as it currently stands, it’s going to die. It needs something new.
- She is not a conspiracy. No one picked Whittaker so that it would ruin the show. I’m sorry if you don’t like the changes that have been made, but more are coming.
What is so wrong with a woman? What did women do that fundamentally make us wrong to play the Doctor? Where in the handbook of Doctor Who does it say a woman can not play this character.
Did BBC make it as a more of politically correct move? Yes. Why does that matter? If you want to be upset at someone, be upset at the people who are completely out of the loop on why everyone is upset. It’s the writing that needs to be better.
I know change is difficult. All I can say to change is — don’t hate the person who is part of it. Whittaker, just like everyone else, wants the show to be successful. No one wants the show to fail. But would a difference in an actress be a huge change? Probably not.
But girls need role models too.
I do want to point this out.
Everyone talks about how boys lost a good role model. Where exactly do girls have a good role model? Barbie? The very few female superheroes that often can’t get a movie made, like Black Widow? (For those about to say Wonder Woman, even the own lot didn’t believe it would do well and didn’t spend on much on advertising before the movie came out).
If you’re worried about your son losing a good role model, think for a second about all the role models girls have.
It’s not sexist or misogynist reasons that bother me. It’s the idea that somewhere along the way in fifty years the fans decided they had a monopoly on this character.
Newsflash: You don’t have a monopoly on any character in this world or the next.