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Apparently Anita Sarkeesian or however she spells her name has gone apes**t on her Twitter account about this - she says the Beeb didn't go far enough and as best I can make out insinuates that the Beeb should have cast a black transwoman in the role. Not going to link it because I can't be bothered, but I'm certain y'all know where to find it.
Amusingly there's quite a few people on Twitter posting up pics from previous mainstream SF shows and movies that had strong female leads to point out the fatuousness of the people celebrating the new female Doctor as some sort of world changing first (as I referenced with the Janeway tweet post above). I was looking through some of it and got a reminder that this isn't even the first time on a Brit SF show where a major recurring character has had a sex change. Not by a long shot.
Yeah, about that whole 'first' and 'breaking new ground' thing... Bit late to the party, hm?
Amusingly there's quite a few people on Twitter posting up pics from previous mainstream SF shows and movies that had strong female leads to point out the fatuousness of the people celebrating the new female Doctor as some sort of world changing first (as I referenced with the Janeway tweet post above). I was looking through some of it and got a reminder that this isn't even the first time on a Brit SF show where a major recurring character has had a sex change. Not by a long shot.
Yeah, about that whole 'first' and 'breaking new ground' thing... Bit late to the party, hm?
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