Jodie Whittaker is the 13th Doctor

[Locutus of Bored]

Well, having a 16 year old daughter, and a 10 year old girl, who watch the doctor who show, even they didn't like it When I showed it to them. They liked rather the idea of being a companion. But my preference even with women I love and want to see succeed. That makes me sexist..how childish has having a differing opinion become. People should stop with knee jerk labels. Sexist over here! Bigots over there! Anti-gay over there!

I'm sure your 16 and 10 year old daughters were not in any way influenced by the fact that their intense sexist father was in the room with them, glaring at them, waiting for them to say that having a woman play the Doctor would totally ruin the show about a space alien who could look like anyone... or else.

You are being the literal definition of a sexist and rejecting her solely because she's a woman, why do you think the label should not apply to you?

Speaking of sexist opinions regarding Doctors, riddle me this:

A father and son have a car accident and are both badly hurt. They are both taken to separate hospitals. When the boy is taken in for an operation, the doctor says 'I can not do the surgery because this is my son'. How is this possible?

Soooo.. I don't like the choice. I prefer the doctor a guy. I get jumped on by like 12 to 1.

12 to 1. With that ratio you've hit the SJW quota and now have to regenerate as a dreaded woman. Sorry, friend.

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Remain civil. Defend myself against bullying and sexist labeling. And I'm trolling? There's no reason other than that's my preference. Does it mean I may not end up liking the new direction..no..but I still have a preference. I can't make that known without getting jumped.,that's kinda sad. So much for free expression. Come on..can't people be allowed their views without being subjugated to a cyber lynching?

Remain civil? You've called people who rightly label you a sexist Nazis twice now, and compared your situation to a lynching. Your victim complex is astonishing.

 

[Samurai8472]

"Oh, this again..."

That'll freak them out.

"I'm a man this time!"

 

[matthunter]

Part of the Doctor's character has always been the boy who never grew up, like Peter Pan. Its a male archetype which doesn't work with a woman in the role. The Master is a different character, which is why it didn't matter when Michelle Gomez was the Master. There are aspects of male psychology that are different from female psychology.

There are aspects of the Doctor's psychology that don't fit with human psychology AT ALL, so I don't think we can apply this argument. No human - no sane one anyway - would have a relationship with their best friend's daughter who they were present at the birth of, witnessed dying on their first encounter (years before they actually met her parents, one of whom tried to shag him herself) and who tried to kill them several times, just as an example.

 

[Awesome Possum]

The Doctor does seem confused on whether he has been a woman before. It would be great if she just barely comments on it.

 

[Squiggy]

Part of the Doctor's character has always been the boy who never grew up, like Peter Pan.

Who is always played by a woman on stage.

 

[Timby]

"I haven't been blonde since I was a hundred and eighty!"

*all life as we know it stops simultaneously and every molecule in our bodies explodes at the speed of light*

 

[tenmei]

What I really want now is Faye Marsay back as Shona (from "Last Christmas") - can picture the Marsay/Whittaker pairing as being fabulous.

 

[Jax]

like Peter Pan. Its a male archetype which doesn't work with a woman in the role

Only if you have bad writing. Peter Pan wanted to be a child and avoid growing up forever and the Doctor acts the same way a lot of the time. There is nothing inherently male or female about it unless you write it to be so.

 

[ihno]

A father and son have a car accident and are both badly hurt. They are both taken to separate hospitals. When the boy is taken in for an operation, the doctor says 'I can not do the surgery because this is my son'. How is this possible?

They were twins, separated by birth.

 

[dahj]

And it's frankly baffling to me why so many fans would be outraged.

Remember all those previous episodes where The Doctor uses his penis to solve the problem?
They're all RUINED now because NOTHING MAKES SENSE ANYMORE!

 

[Jax]

Remember all those previous episodes where The Doctor uses his penis to solve the problem?

I think the technical term is sonic screwdriver

 

[MarsWeeps]

I wonder if the new Doctor will be called a TimeLady instead of a TimeLord? Would that be the equivalent of dropping two nukes?

 

[Kemaiku]

I go for one bath and something to eat and come back to pages of this. I got to about page 9 and had to stop before I liked enough posts to wear my finger to a stump.

Long story short, I am pretty happy at the news not only because the Doctor (an alien life form defined by their ability to change entire bodily form) is a woman, and that it's an actress that much like her male counterparts has the role through ability to act overe anything else and already has the respect of many here.

And B, for those still using the LGBTQ community as an excuse to hate on this, every trans* and Enby social group I belong to is delighted at the news and many of them are already getting ready to cosplay this new iteration, they are (to put it mildly) *very* happy at the news.

To be honest, there is a lot more positive and exicted a reaction going to this news everywhere but for scifi and fantasy groups, who out of everyone going on about a better, more inclusive future, are the ones bitching and whining most over this "becuz GURLZ"

Get over yourselves and watch the weird shapeshifting time-traveling alien beat up rubber suits with a glorified dentist drill like every other time.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I wonder if the new Doctor will be called a TimeLady instead of a TimeLord? Would that be the equivalent of dropping two nukes?

Missy has referred to herself as a Time Lady, but she's old fashioned.

 

[StCoop]

So the people against this casting choice also throw around comments about SJW's and claim feminism is a female supremacy movement.

How depressingly predictable.

And they don't seem to understand that if they appeared in an episode of "Doctor Who" they'd be the people the Doctor is fighting against.

 

[jaime]

I'm fifty fifty on it. It's gonna depend on the writing. (Which Chibnall doesn't necessarily immediately inspire confidence on.) it could work...but if it doesn't there's gonna be a netstorm.
Will they objectify and sexualise her like they did recent young doctors? Will the people who swooned at Tennant and Smith...and the few at Capaldi...be put right out? What happens when the actress turns up talking about fashion or in a similar shoot? But that's all niggles. And pointless ones at that.
For me...well...when the Doctor was a father figure for so long, and an important one, a role model too....it gives mixed feelings.
And welll..it had better be bloody amazing writing. Because if it all goes bosoms skyward, it will be the bosoms that get the blame, that much is certain.
That and I've never heard of her...and then realise I may have seen St.Trinians...well. Fifty fifty. I was fifty fifty on Matt Smith too and he turned out bloody amazing.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Missy has referred to herself as a Time Lady, but she's old fashioned.

I shall miss Missy.

 

[Relayer1]

"Tits! I've got tits! I don't like the color."

" … of your tits?"

And Doctor Who shall be forever ruined.

The Doctor looks down her trousers....ooh, that's new - ginger pubes !

 

[C.E. Evans]

I'm happy as hell with this choice. I was 99% certain they were going to go with another guy in the likes of Tennant or Smith, so I'm thrilled to be wrong. I'm fortunate that I've never met a Doctor I haven't liked, and I'm sure Whittaker will continue that.

 

[jaime]

The Doctor does seem confused on whether he has been a woman before. It would be great if she just barely comments on it.

He's pretty much straightforward he hasn't been. Look at the Day Of The Doctor. Unless Bill Hartnell has a secret his Doctor didn't tell Cameca then..