No really, let's break that last down a little more: e) STRAIGHT WHITE males are overrepresented in fiction; but women like Jenna are represented all over the place and still have a kyriarchical upper hand over men of color/trans men/disabled men and to act like it's a crime against feminist criticism to think that maybe a male character could also be progressive seems, intersectionally speaking, highly suspect to me.
I completely agree! Even a YOUNG women is more highly valued than an older person. Imagine the doctor travelling for an entire season with someone like Wilf, who is also near the end of his life! Or a full season of the Doctor signing with a deaf person (this is in my head right now after watching a season of Switched At Birth deal with so many issues between deaf/hearing people and it's a world I'd never been exposed to before and has just made me more aware in general towards my lack of knowledge re: people with disabilities)
DW reaches so many people in so many countries and they should be able to see themselves represented on this show - which has the easiest canon to explain characters from different places/times!
I remember in S2 when my wish was for a married couple (of colour) with a kid to be the next companions (ah, back when I was young and my heart hadn't been stomped on) but now I wouldn't even be bothered by BROS ON THE TARDIS because I don't trust the show will treat any women with the narrative integrity I want. (I love your Doctor-as-serial-killer idea and it reminds me of a vid that showed all the women - including all the guest stars - who had been hurt or killed for him to accomplish his goals. I will try to find it later.)
Diverging from the people who are "AT LEAST IT'S NOT A PENIS, AMIRITE?", I don't think they ever had to worry? As large as the female presence is in online fandom, marketing is still stuck in the past of going after the 15-25 male demographic and they want them to buy life-size cutouts of the new pretty, white girl they fantasize about. For all the talk that it's a kids show, it's clearly trying to please an older heteronormative audience with it's revolving door of pretty young girls for the Doctor to act like James Bond with.
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I completely agree! Even a YOUNG women is more highly valued than an older person. Imagine the doctor travelling for an entire season with someone like Wilf, who is also near the end of his life! Or a full season of the Doctor signing with a deaf person (this is in my head right now after watching a season of Switched At Birth deal with so many issues between deaf/hearing people and it's a world I'd never been exposed to before and has just made me more aware in general towards my lack of knowledge re: people with disabilities)
DW reaches so many people in so many countries and they should be able to see themselves represented on this show - which has the easiest canon to explain characters from different places/times!
I remember in S2 when my wish was for a married couple (of colour) with a kid to be the next companions (ah, back when I was young and my heart hadn't been stomped on) but now I wouldn't even be bothered by BROS ON THE TARDIS because I don't trust the show will treat any women with the narrative integrity I want. (I love your Doctor-as-serial-killer idea and it reminds me of a vid that showed all the women - including all the guest stars - who had been hurt or killed for him to accomplish his goals. I will try to find it later.)
Diverging from the people who are "AT LEAST IT'S NOT A PENIS, AMIRITE?", I don't think they ever had to worry? As large as the female presence is in online fandom, marketing is still stuck in the past of going after the 15-25 male demographic and they want them to buy life-size cutouts of the new pretty, white girl they fantasize about. For all the talk that it's a kids show, it's clearly trying to please an older heteronormative audience with it's revolving door of pretty young girls for the Doctor to act like James Bond with.