Montegriffo wrote:Well you know, 50% of children are girls, why shouldn't a shape shifting alien be a girl once every 13 times?Speaker to Animals wrote:Yep. SJWs ruin everything they infect.
Why not make a different time traveling character who is female?
The main problem with this kind of dumbassery is not that the lead is female, but that it portrays women as only being heroic or notable if they steal the accomplishments of men.
We see the same thing with a female Thor, or a female James Bond. It says the only way women can achieve what men achieve is by forcing men out, even when it results in failure, to be replaced by a less qualified female character. After all, if women were every bit as heroic as men, they'd have their own original characters.
The whole thing screams of misogyny. Maybe not so much with Dr. Who, since as you said he changes shape every time the actor demands a raise, but the general phenomenon is terribly hateful towards women while the people who push for it attack critics with Orwellian accusations of misogyny.
It's really fucking nuts. There probably exists a market for a completely different show centered around a female time traveler too.