Poll of the Day > Male Doctor Who Fans are OUTRAGED that the 13th Doctor is a WOMAN!!!

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Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker has been cast as the new Doctor Who and the 13th Time Lord has DIVIDED FANS as many have called this "political correctness" while others applaud the decision to finally make a change!!

While many are praising the writers for choosing a female, others said this has GONE MAD as Twitter User David Stephens said "Sorry, this is so called equality, women's rights, political correctness gone Mad-Dr Who was written/created as a man! End of"

Clive Walton also agreed and said "No the character is a man not a woman! As usual the BBC have to muddy the waters through political correctness that's what they do"

Tony Moretta has also wrote "Well you're one viewer down already"

The Decision however has won the praise of former doctors who played the role, including the 6th Doctor, Colin Baker who said "Well i never, the BBC really did do the right thing and let the Doctor be in touch with her feminisde side. As a father of daughters - result!"

Not surprisingly the ones outraged are males while the ones praising are females, including Georgina Hewitson who said "I must say i'm pleased we might get a generation of little girls running around with sonic screwdrivers and lightsabers"

Jenny Trout from Michigan filmed her daughter intensely watching the reveal and her face is lit up when a woman was revealed and said "The new Doctor is a girl!"

New head writer Chris Chibnall who takes over Steve Moffatt made the decision to cast the first woman as he always knew that the 13th doctor would be a woman as Jodie's audition, whom he worked with on Broadchurch, blew him away with her funny and inspiring wit.

She beat out 2 other actors, including her former co-star Olivia Coleman and one man, Kris Marshall who were also the favourites to be the new doctor.

All of the previous doctors have been white males and there have been rumours that he could have been a black man, played by Idris Elba.

Many of the longtime male fans have been critical of this decision and are outraged over the changing of genders..but time will tell if the new doctor can change their minds as her partner will be revealed soon as well.

Peter Capaldi, the current doctor will make his last appearance this Christmas as Jodie will make her first appearance then.

Do you think the Doctor who should be a Forever White Male? let's see what people think.

Joie - New Doctor

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Peter - Old Doctor

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Kris and Olivia - Lost out to Jodie

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I hope the next Doctor is a dog.
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I'm surprised they went with white lady before black guy, but I think we all knew more diversity was coming to the character. It's perfectly within canon for this to happen, and I think it might allow for some fresh stories anyway.

EDIT: Also, I've got to say, the woman they chose totally looks the part of the Doctor from every picture I've been seeing.

I thought they were all different people anyways?
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Lightning Bolt posted...

I thought they were all different people anyways?

When the Doctor dies, his body regenerates instead of truly dying. It changes his appearance and scrambles his brain, changing his personality. It's still the same Doctor, just looking and acting a bit different. Again, it's perfectly within canon that a regeneration can change the Time Lord's gender along with the rest of their appearance.

It's kind of weird in that I thought they made the Master a woman specifically in order to avoid the outrage this would bring. Or maybe it was just a test run.
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Doesn't he only have thirteen lives, though? Kind of odd to have twelve guy doctors and then finish it off with a female.

Currant_Kaiser posted...

Doesn't he only have thirteen lives, though? Kind of odd to have twelve guy doctors and then finish it off with a female.

Maybe it's symbolic.
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Currant_Kaiser posted...

Doesn't he only have thirteen lives, though? Kind of odd to have twelve guy doctors and then finish it off with a female.

They replenished them back with the eleventh Doctor.
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at least this time there's an excuse for getting rid of the white guy, i guess.
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Blighboy posted...

Currant_Kaiser posted...

Doesn't he only have thirteen lives, though? Kind of odd to have twelve guy doctors and then finish it off with a female.

They replenished them back with the eleventh Doctor.

Never mind then.

They should have blown people's minds by making the 13th Doctor a black, female, genderfluid, trans-apache with a physical, mental, and psychic disability.
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I dont mind the change. Glad Peter is out to be truthful.
Also if this doctor makes rating drop, she will only last a season or two, and then BBC can say they tried something different
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aHappySacka posted...

They should have blown people's minds by making the 13th Doctor a black, female, genderfluid, trans-apache with a physical, mental, and psychic disability.

All this and Muslim.
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Person106 posted...

aHappySacka posted...

They should have blown people's minds by making the 13th Doctor a black, female, genderfluid, trans-apache with a physical, mental, and psychic disability.

All this and Muslim.

Muslim is not a race. the dr is atheist because he is from an advanced alien species

I thought this information was released years ago

Is this an old story or delayed outrage?
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The next Wonder Woman will be an Asian man and if that bothers you then you're a bigot.
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Person106 posted...

aHappySacka posted...

They should have blown people's minds by making the 13th Doctor a black, female, genderfluid, trans-apache with a physical, mental, and psychic disability.

All this and Muslim.

Wouldn't work - we won't see her face and she won't be able to leave home.
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I think it will help to expand the audience of the show by having more female viewers. I seriously doubt that most fans of the show will stop watching altogether because of the gender change. It's just the loud people getting all the attention right now. I wasn't too keen on an old man playing the role of the Doctor, but he impressed me. I think she looks the part. Their judgement as far as picking a Doctor hasn't let me down yet.
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DrChocolate posted...

Muslim is not a race.

Genderfluid isn't a race either.

DrChocolate posted...

the dr is atheist because he is from an advanced alien species

Implying that being super smart means being super atheist.

Lobomoon posted...

Person106 posted...

aHappySacka posted...

They should have blown people's minds by making the 13th Doctor a black, female, genderfluid, trans-apache with a physical, mental, and psychic disability.

All this and Muslim.

Wouldn't work - we won't see her face and she won't be able to leave home.

Just like American muslims?

SilverClock posted...

I wasn't too keen on an old man playing the role of the Doctor, but he impressed me.

I thought him being an old man was great. He hadn't looked old since the 3rd Doctor and most of the recent ones were good-looking and looked young.
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When people were clamoring for a black Doctor Who, I joked the next one should be a woman. Somewhat regretting that. Granted, Idris Elba wouldn't be able to find the time from doing 2 episodes a year to play Doctor Who.

DrChocolate posted...

Person106 posted...

aHappySacka posted...

They should have blown people's minds by making the 13th Doctor a black, female, genderfluid, trans-apache with a physical, mental, and psychic disability.

All this and Muslim.

Muslim is not a race. the dr is atheist because he is from an advanced alien species

Because Muslim isn't a race, it means s/he can be Muslim and black. Duh. And s/he'd have to be Muslim because otherwise it'd be Islamophobic. Can't offend even one person! (Well, other than whites who don't count because SJWs don't see whites as people.)

SushiSquid posted...

I'm surprised they went with white lady before black guy, but I think we all knew more diversity was coming to the character. It's perfectly within canon for this to happen, and I think it might allow for some fresh stories anyway.

EDIT: Also, I've got to say, the woman they chose totally looks the part of the Doctor from every picture I've been seeing.

It doesn't really make sense within the canon. No canonical regeneration has ever done that, nor has the canon suggested it could happen.

SilverClock posted...

I think it will help to expand the audience of the show by having more female viewers. I seriously doubt that most fans of the show will stop watching altogether because of the gender change. It's just the loud people getting all the attention right now. I wasn't too keen on an old man playing the role of the Doctor, but he impressed me. I think she looks the part. Their judgement as far as picking a Doctor hasn't let me down yet.

I think you have the same mindset of the clueless executives who think the only way to appeal to women is by casting women, otherwise called pandering. Given that moves like this are born of desperation, the show may not have longer left.
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I can't say I care as I've never watched it and never will.
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I wonder if the sonic screwdriver will have vibrate function now?
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

I thought this information was released years ago

Is this an old story or delayed outrage?

Literally released today.
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Sounds fine but I've never bothered watching it so my opinion is a bit moot. I could see why a long time fan would be annoyed.
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Like a priest said to a stripper:

I'll watch it but I probably won't enjoy it.
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J_Dawg983 posted...

Sounds fine but I've never bothered watching it so my opinion is a bit moot. I could see why a long time fan would be annoyed.

I guess most fans upset that the storytelling takes back sit to politically correct agendas.
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Lobomoon posted...

Like a priest said to a stripper:

I'll watch it but I probably won't enjoy it.

Believe me, the priest will enjoy it very much.
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Zeus posted...

It doesn't really make sense within the canon. No canonical regeneration has ever done that, nor has the canon suggested it could happen.

Missy is the Master regenerated as a female. The Doctor has also made comments upon past regenerations that he's glad to have teeth and a tongue. Clearly regeneration can do some wild things with a Time Lord's body, and we've already seen an example of gender changing.

Full Throttle posted...

Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker has been cast as the new Doctor Who and the 13th Time Lord has DIVIDED FANS as many have called this "political correctness" while others applaud the decision to finally make a change!!

...She beat out 2 other actors, including her former co-star Olivia Coleman and one man, Kris Marshall who were also the favourites to be the new doctor.

Well she's attractive and can act so that's pretty much all I'm concerned about. I don't actually think it was specified anywhere that it had to be a white male so if it's canon, no big deal.
If anything, she's a far better choice than Kris marshall and Olivia coleman is wrong for a more modern/mature doc so if that was the 3 top choices, I think the picked the right one.
I don;t get all the butthurt, it's only for a year or so on average and I don't get saying it's going to be terrible straight off-you don;t actually know until she's actually done a few eps lol
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Ogurisama posted...

I dont mind the change. Glad Peter is out to be truthful.

Agreed. I know it's not a popular opinion among the fanbase, but I dont' really like his Doctor. Mostly because the bad taste he left in my mouth from "The Caretaker" never did wear off. He was ignorant and stupid and biggoted in that episode.

SushiSquid posted...

Zeus posted...

It doesn't really make sense within the canon. No canonical regeneration has ever done that, nor has the canon suggested it could happen.

Missy is the Master regenerated as a female. The Doctor has also made comments upon past regenerations that he's glad to have teeth and a tongue. Clearly regeneration can do some wild things with a Time Lord's body, and we've already seen an example of gender changing.

Way back during the Fourth Doctor's run, his companion Romana was also a Time Lord. She "tried out" several bodies before settling on her second incarnation. One of the bodies she tried out was a blue humanoid. So yeah, regeneration conceivably doesn't even have to result in a human/Galifreyan body. Next to that, gender seems a rather minor detail.

Publicity stunt - nothing more.
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Doesn't count as a regeneration if there's a gender swap~~ 12 more Seasons!
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Lobomoon posted...

Publicity stunt - nothing more.

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Now the show will feel like Caitlyn Jenner documentary.
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Lobomoon posted...

Now the show will feel like Caitlyn Jenner documentary.

The Doctor never killed anyone with his TARDIS
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Anyone remember the "Curse of Fatal Death" comedy sketch? The 13th Doctor (coming in after a five-minute period where Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12 bit the dust) was played by Joanna Lumley.
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Lokarin posted...

Lobomoon posted...

Now the show will feel like Caitlyn Jenner documentary.

The Doctor never killed anyone with his TARDIS

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I wanted this. I think it's cool

SushiSquid posted...

Lightning Bolt posted...

I thought they were all different people anyways?

When the Doctor dies, his body regenerates instead of truly dying. It changes his appearance and scrambles his brain, changing his personality. It's still the same Doctor, just looking and acting a bit different. Again, it's perfectly within canon that a regeneration can change the Time Lord's gender along with the rest of their appearance.

This.

There is actually already precedent for it happening to another time lord
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I don't really care. I guess it sort of gives them some material to take The Doctor in places he hasn't been before.

I'm not going to pretend that the 12th Doctor was my favorite Doctor, but I thought his "cold and calculated" personality he stared as was interesting, but as they transitioned him to be bleeding heart, he became stupid.
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I doubt its just male fans.

Full Throttle posted...

"I must say i'm pleased we might get a generation of little girls running around with sonic screwdrivers and lightsabers"

Maybe a few here and there but it would be a rarity considering girls interests in toys are typically not mechanical toys
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Seems fine. In those pics of her as the Doctor, she looks like what you'd expect an incarnation of the Doctor to look like. I can't find any clips of her talking as the Doctor, though.

I don't think being a Time Lord is gender-dependent.
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Person106 posted...

DrChocolate posted...

Muslim is not a race.

Genderfluid isn't a race either.

DrChocolate posted...

the dr is atheist because he is from an advanced alien species

Implying that being super smart means being super atheist.

Lobomoon posted...

Person106 posted...

aHappySacka posted...

They should have blown people's minds by making the 13th Doctor a black, female, genderfluid, trans-apache with a physical, mental, and psychic disability.

All this and Muslim.

Wouldn't work - we won't see her face and she won't be able to leave home.

Just like American muslims?

SilverClock posted...

I wasn't too keen on an old man playing the role of the Doctor, but he impressed me.

I thought him being an old man was great. He hadn't looked old since the 3rd Doctor and most of the recent ones were good-looking and looked young.

They can cast a Muslim actor, that's fine but the character should never be Muslim that will be simply stupid.

He is an alien and none of humanity religions existed in his planet @Person106 @Zeus

Also being Atheist doesn't mean someone is smarter it only means more rational. remember than intelligence and rationality are different.

What is important is respecting the show's lore. not pandering to the regressive leftist or the alt-nazi conservatives
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I watched like the first 8 or so episodes of the first season with Christopher Eccleston and gave up on the entire series.

Also consider how the Doctor got more regeneration's, they were given to the 11/12th by River Song, a FEMALE time lord, so it makes sense that Rivers regenerations could change the Doctor into a woman.

That and the Doctor being able to regenerate into a woman has been cannon since the days of William Hartell, as confirmed by the writer himself.

Lobomoon posted...

J_Dawg983 posted...

Sounds fine but I've never bothered watching it so my opinion is a bit moot. I could see why a long time fan would be annoyed.

I guess most fans upset that the storytelling takes back seat to politically correct agendas.

This is pretty much what my wife said to me. She's been a Doctor Who fan since Chris Eccleston was the doctor, and she tells me the show has been getting worse and worse since shortly before the current guy took over. According to her, this is the final nail in the coffin. I'm not really a fan of the show, but I've watched some episodes with her.

I get it. I wouldn't like if the makers of something I really liked made a drastic change to a character just for political reasons. It shows that either they're all out of good ideas, or they're just trying to do it to pander to some group.
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