Maybe we can worry about that when white straight cis (also male) characters aren’t so vastly overrepresented in fiction, especially as main characters.

This actor is the same gender as her character, and the character in the comics. Scarlett Johansson is not a man. One is gender bending, the other isn't.

That was just a rumour that has now been debunked

That was just a rumour that has now been debunked

To people like him, I wonder: so if vaccines cause autism and we’re about to have a huge influx of autism caused by vaccines, why don’t we have a world of people with autism already? We’ve been living with vaccinations for multiple generations...

Trying to further pathologise Autism by making spurious observations is still shitty.

This is quibbling. Not absolutely necessary for you and other people like you doesn’t mean not absolutely necessary.

Disabled people exist, people with executive dysfunction exist.

Once again, the actual first rule of Doctor Who is that the Doctor canonically goes by both the Doctor and Doctor Who.

No problem, thanks for being open to learning!

“a transgender person who identified as a woman” is a woman. There are heterosexual trans women, as orientation is not connected to gender.

Nope, the character goes by both in the show and has been credited as both in the show.

Uh what’s with the passive aggressive [sic]? That’s the correct spelling in Australian (and some other variations of) English.

Yeah it’s a tricky one. As someone with psych and neuropsych training I tend to be a bit leery of the word ‘hardwiring’, given there’s so much we still don’t know about the brain, and how flexible and plastic it is. Also it tends to get really overused in contexts where people are trying to rationalise their (usually…

Possibly, but there are plenty of autistic people out there who manage to not come across as condescending. Every autistic person is different. Also, there are many autistic women out there as well.

What biological hard wiring are you talking about?

Well, there are some women around who do actually know first hand.

Uh, are you taking about the autistic spectrum? Because... no. None of the traits that this woman has displayed are associated with neurodivergence.

Nope, can we please stop armchair diagnosing bigots and shitty people?

“There are obvious limits to how far an actor should go, but for the most part, THIS is easy”