. “You don’t have to be of a gender of someone to be a role model. Can’t you be a role model as people?”

Girls and women, without even thinking about it, are able to relate to male characters in movies, TV, and books. Not to mention real life. They’ve done this because they often didn’t have a lot of alternatives.

When my son, at age 7, saw the first transition (he’d heard the mythology, but hadn’t watched the NuWho shows yet) — he said “but, can the Doctor transform into a woman, too?” and I said “yes, Time Lords can, and I don’t think they have power or control over what they change into. Which is interesting in itself.” And…

That’s just it: think about all the tv shows, movies, and books little girls have consumed and found ways to relate to the heroes because stories, human condition, etc.

This hurts because Davison was my (first) Doctor. (Then they hit the eighth, whom I loved immediately, and then the fourth, and I gained a fondness for the others over time.) 

When the concept of boys looking up to a woman as a role model is seen as normal and routine (as girls frequently look towards male role models), then perhaps we will have achieved something close to equality.

What about the little girls watching? It never crossed his mind that little girls want positive female role models too.

Carter’s just the best. No-nonsense female who just gets on with shit and was never written to either be worse than men or constantly being stronger because she’s a woman as too many female characters have been.

That’s the closest to a coherent point against the female doctor that we’ve had, but I think it still fails by a long shot. Colin Baker has the exact right response: Why does a role model need to be of the same gender?

I’m a lady, grew up watching law & order and considered Jack McCoy a role model. God forbid a young boy look up to a woman.

Exactly how would us boys lose a role model? We still have 13 others, (including the War Doctor). And a woman can absolutely still be a role model for boy, too.

Sad. If only boys had another role model. ;(

Also: there is no amount of hair and makeup that is going to make Sarah Huckabee Sanders good at her job. She doesn’t need to look pretty to do a job that is basically just lying. That she only got because... Republican nepotism.

“Look. I like you. But you’re, like, a 4 out of 10. That’s not good enough to beat spicey’s ratings. Definitely not. So you need to get up to at least a 6 out of 10. Hit the gym, cut back on the McDees, tan every once and a while...you know. Actually care about your body and appearance. Unlike now. Where you obviously…

It is so infuriating when a man tells you what you should wear and not to wear, how you should do your hair or why you should wear makeup or why you should smile more, there is no week where a man offers me free unsolicited styling recommendations.

Don’t make comments that can be interpreted as being about a woman’s appearance. Period.

What's the over/under on how long before poly and open relationship type people take their evangelizing door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses?

Tbh I always kind of side-eye heterosexual polyamorous relationships because I have never personally seen one that wasn't initiated by the straight male partner looking for other girls and his semi-insecure girlfriend just going along with it. Idk seems like it has a lot of potential to develop an unhealthy power…