𝐈𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐱𝐨𝐧 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧!)
Now to address that topic that I find yucky: It is NOT canon on this blog that Simm!Master was physically abusive towards Lucy. Just no, RTD! Even if his relationship with Lucy was strictly for manipulative purposes in order to create the facade of "Harold Saxon", I just personally don't see the Master wanting to ever just beat her up because of, well, anything.
Did he use her for his plans? Yes. Did he threaten to replace her with someone else? Yes. Was the relationship still toxic from both parties involved? Would he kill her to save himself? Oh yes. I mean, it doesn't change or justify what happened at all.
He's still a bastard doing wrong, but he would never hit a woman because I say so. He also isn't misogynistic. There was NEVER any evidence of him being this way in Classic Who, so it isn't happening for New Who either. In Classic Who for Delgado!Master, he is shown having the same amount of respect for a female scientist (if not more) than the male scientist in the room (The Time Monster.) In the same episode, there is also Queen Galleia of which he also treats in the same way. Oh, and then there is his relationship with Jo Grant, of which he has some amount of human respect for. As for Ainley!Master, I'd say the same about him too. The worst he's done is kill Tegan's aunt and steal the body of Nyssa's father, but that's it. He's never said anything disrespectful about women though. HECK, HE EVEN WORKS ALONGSIDE THE RANI AND RESPECTS HER BRIILLIANCE!!! AHHHH!
This also brings into the conversation my other excellent point which I will talk about in a seperate post: I don't see Simm!Master hurting Missy (his future self) either.
So, point of this post: it doesn't matter what incarnation of the Master, they respect women and aren't misogynistic (despite what RTD and Moffat may say), but they are still a bastard. Thanks! *mic drop, send tweet.*
