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@scifi-feminism
Hey, do any of you admins/mods like Star Trek: Voyager? I think I remember one of the feminist DW blogs I follow does have an admin who does. Thanks! :)
YES!
That would be me! I LOVE Voyager. I bought a Captain Janeway figurine two days ago, that's how much I love Voyager.Â
Sometimes I wonder about classism in Doctor Who fandom (I’m one of those people!). You need to have money for a lot of it. You often need money to get the DVDs or VHS tapes, to see the special features and learn about the history of the show, and to buy the audio adventures such as Big Finish….
I just pirate everything that’s not freely available. That works for the visual media, at least.Â
Saying that River Song contributes to bi-representation is like saying that Susan the horse contributes to trans-representation.
Heads up
A companion’s life “not revolving around the Doctor” does not mean that we spend hours of screen time watching her do her laundry and text her BFF. It means that the text acknowledges and builds upon the fact that she has had important, character-building life events (both off and occasionally on screen) that were not caused by, created by, or for the benefit of the Doctor, thus giving her character traits, emotions and relationships that she would have had even without him in her life. So saying that all the companions’ lives totally revolve around the Doctor equally, because the show is called Doctor Who and of course that’s what we see on screen every week (er, a few times a year) is rather missing the point of the criticism.
ugh though
it says so much about the current powers that be at doctor who that all of the names billed on the poster are white people. there are no people of color that we have seen, which means obviously they could be hiding somewhere, but imo it’s unlikely.
and then look at s7. the only time we get black men (or men of color at all, if my memory serves me correctly), they are… space criminals. luckily we get a bamfy biracial woman who is an astronaut or something but… she needs saving by the white male protagonist. and she’s not even a leading role, really.
meanwhile, there’s no reason why there couldn’t have been poc all over the place, if tptb cared. and it’s not just a s7 problem.
there’s a theme of highlighting racist historical figures like winston churchill (who was in fact a white supremacist) and agatha christie, instead of looking to equally important people of color.
can you imagine an episode about the doctor and clara at the march on washington? just watching mlk and john lewis and josephine baker, because they can? and maybe, for shits and giggles, they’re staking out a pair of aliens staking out the event because it’s a fucking big deal and they’re tourist aliens who want to see the speeches. idk, it’s not my job to come up with shit for this show.
if you can’t see that doctor who has as much of a racial problem as it does a sexism problem, you need to get your lenses checked.
As usual, Cate hits the nail on the head.Â
Keep your hateful ideologie out of this beautiful fandom .
Homophobia? Transphobia? Racism? Classism? Ageism? Sexism? Ableism? Fascism? Nazism?Â
The belief that gender relations should be managed by Robin Thicke?
Oh, you meant feminism. That terrible, awful belief that women are human beings and should be treated equally in society. Nah, I think I’m quite comfortable in this beautiful fandom, thank you very much.
(By the way, the singular of “ideologies” is “ideology”)
i'm a girl, i'm a whovian, i'm open-minded.tell me why feminism should be a thing. i have not yet discovered what you call misgony in my life, so it's up to you to show me why and where women are opressed, and i will consider feminism. convince me :)
Honey, I write an entire blog analyzing feminism in Doctor Who. You’ve sent me this question via Tumblr, which leads me to assume you have access to the internet. Nearly all the classic feminist texts are online, as are blogs analyzing the feminist experience in nearly every aspect of modern life from almost every conceivable perspective. If you were actually open minded about feminism, you would’ve gone and read these things yourself instead of challenging the first feminist blogger you came across to justify her own life experiences.
Take some responsibility for yourself, do your own research, and decide if feminism is right for you. You can’t sit there on a pile of luck and what is probably a healthy dash of internalized misogyny, dismiss misogyny as something I’ve made up, and then make it my responsibility to challenge your whole life experience and prove to you why feminism should be “a thing.” It’s not responsibility to provide you with some magical awakening experience.
Important News About Blog Changes
You may have noticed (or are just noticing) the change in name of this blog from feministdoctorwho to scifi-feminism.Â
This is because this blog's platform is changing a bit! I have lately been finding it difficult to analyze Doctor Who, its characters, writers, and production from many angles without repeating myself or countless of other very capable feminists!Â
In order to broaden the scope of what this blog writes and posts about, I am now going to include feminism from science fiction (and some fantasy) in general.Â
If you are hard stuck on reading a blog that posts EXCLUSIVELY Doctor Who feminism, I HIGHLY suggest following Whovian Feminism. She runs a fabulous blog and is a very talented person.Â
But I hope you choose to keep following us as we go through the process of re-working our blog (it's going to be a little bit messy over the next few days as we sort thing out) and engage with us in future discussion about science fiction media!Â
Cheers!
AliceÂ
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Characters who deserved better endings:Â
- Jo and her mother from Supernatural. Classic case of a woman in the refrigerator. Also not good due to Supernatural's track record of icing every female character it shows (except Charlie so far, maybe this will change??)
- Donna Noble. I'm not saying why yet, because I'm almost done with a post I'm going to put here soon about her character.
- Rose Tyler. Don't get me WRONG, I think that her ending was a fine creative choice and in my head Rose and 10.5 are living happily in Pete's World with lots and lots of sex hugs. BUT I really hate how she had no agency in this decision.Â
- Irene Adler in BBC's Sherlock. See other posts for why this adaptation of Adler drives me totally bonkers.
- Every lady (and most men) in Game of Thrones. Although to be fair, it's less of a feminist opinion and more of a "please stop hurting my babies" opinion.
Christopher Eccleston on the relationship between the Doctor and his companions
I love you.
OH my goodness, haha!! Yes, I did not take a long shit at Planned Parenthood, it was a long SHIFT.
Whoops >< Never type under exhaustion, people.Â
I'm gonna type up some answers for you now, peeps :)Â
I have a few asks in the box right now and I PROMISE I will write them first thing in the morning.
I just got back from a volunteer shift at Planned Parenthood and I'm REALLY tired.
Sorry for the wait!Â
13 and 15, please? :)
Oh boy. I think I'm going to have to combine these because they are mostly the same women.
1. Amy Pond definitely hits the top of the list. I think she is a wonderful character with so much potential and she's just fallen so flat in so many ways. She gets written inconsistently and poorly, with horrible treatment (forced pregnancy and nonconsensual birth??? then stolen baby!??). Overall just so sad about where her character has been taken.
2. IRENE ADLER. I am a Critical Media and Cultural Studies + English double major, and last year, my focus was Victorian Literature with an emphasis on detective literature. I did a huge research project on Irene Adler. For this project I did a lot of comparisons between the original Irene Adler and how she has been represented in multiple adaptations. She's a character very close to my heart and it makes me rage to see her written badly/stuck in a crappy chess-board narrative.
3. Daenerys Targaryen. This one is tricky for me. I am a Daenerys STAN. I freaking idolize her. I have a figurine of her on my bookshelf. I have a Targaryen tee-shirt. She is my top choice for ruler of the Iron Throne. BUT. I recently finished A Storm of Swords and I am not too happy with where her character is going. What started out as a young women over-coming abuse and learning to manipulate her surroundings in her favor has slowly been morphing into a super white-savior-y story. I hope this changes because she is my baby.Â
4. River Song. There's just so much wrong with how she is written and treated. I want to hate her, but it's not HER I hate, it's how poorly she's been written and executed (this has nothing to do with Alex Kingston who is a LOVELY person from what I can tell and a very good actress). I could (and have) written a lot about what I find sexist/problematic about the treatment and writing River Song, so I won't repeat myself, but a quick google will find you a lot of writing from lots of different people on the subject!
5. Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager. I love her so much as a character but she was so often treated as simple eye candy with no substance (I mean, literally, she wasn't a fully realized person since she was part of the borg collective). THANKFULLY, she did get better treatment/writing later on and began to develop into a more full, dynamic character.
SORRY FOR WRITING SO MUCH.
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4. Magical Girls
I'm not really into anime/manga, but I used to be when I was a young teen and I have sentimentality about a lot of them.
Sailor Moon (obviously, I mean, that's a childhood staple)
 Ichigo MomomiyaÂ
Ami Mizuno (I literally dressed up as her Halloween sophmore year in high school)
(not sure if technically a Magical Girl) Haruhi SuzumiyaÂ
Tohru from FB
My Anime/Manga familiarity is LIMITED and from a long time ago (when I was less of a educated feminist), so I'm sure there are better female-role models in that category, but these are my favorites of the ones I used to like. :)Â
TOP 5 FEMALE CHARACTERS MEME
Send me a number and I'll write out my top 5 fictional women.
1 - Protagonists
2 - Villains
3 - Superheroes
4 - Magical Girls
5 - Queens/Empresses/Royalty
6 - Who are adorable dorks
7 - That I'd invite to a sleepover/dinner party
8 - That I'd want to go on an adventure with
9 - That I'd want to be friends with
10 - That I'd want to kiss
11 - That I will love till the end of time
12 - Who I think deserved better endings
13 - I wish had better development/writing
14 - I wish had better a love interest(s)
15 - I want to rescue from their horrible narratives
useful writing vocabulary
schrodinger’s plot - a plot so convoluted and confusing that it is impossible to tell if the story is good or bad
Whovian Feminism’s New Logo!
I am a Doctor Who fan, and I am a feminist. Sometimes I get greater enjoyment out of watching Doctor Who because I am a feminist, and sometimes I enjoy it less. But I will never stop watching Doctor Who with a critical eye. I’m not just a feminist or just a Whovian, and I won’t turn off one so that I can enjoy the other. My fandom will be feminist. I’m a Whovian Feminist.
Earlier this year I asked for artists to design the blog a new logo, and luckily for me, longtime follower and all around amazing artist Elin J responded. She can be found on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter.
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