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Doctor Who fandom? Don't make me come back there. What the everloving fuck. *dives back to safe little pile of sane people*
For future reference, a few things that are not feminist:
1. Slut shaming. No, not even if you couch it in concern that wearing short skirts sends the wrong message that women are whores. And they shouldn't be sexually confident lest people think they are whores. Or act in any other whorish way that only whores would act, and if they'd just act like proper ladies you wouldn't have to go around pointing out their whoredom. ESPECIALLY THEN.
2. Insisting that women who are smart, confident and proactive are unrealistic. Dismissing every single female character exhibiting such traits as unrelatable/smug/too much. Perhaps the word you're looking for is uppity? Bonus points if you immediately start falling all over yourself every time a male character exhibits such traits.
3. Pretending you are engaging in feminist critique if said critique only magically appears in relation to one specific showrunner, show, and his specific characters, and gleefully ignores either the broader context of media as a whole and/or the rest of the show's run. Clue: Media is steeped in sexism. All of it. Yes, even that thing you like. It's a tangled, complicated mess that is broader and deeper than which flavor of it entertains you more. Hint: petty nitpicky bashing of female characters as a method of critique? Not helpful. Ever. And please see number one again. Memorize it.
I really hate people. Except you guys. You guys, I love.
For future reference, a few things that are not feminist:
1. Slut shaming. No, not even if you couch it in concern that wearing short skirts sends the wrong message that women are whores. And they shouldn't be sexually confident lest people think they are whores. Or act in any other whorish way that only whores would act, and if they'd just act like proper ladies you wouldn't have to go around pointing out their whoredom. ESPECIALLY THEN.
2. Insisting that women who are smart, confident and proactive are unrealistic. Dismissing every single female character exhibiting such traits as unrelatable/smug/too much. Perhaps the word you're looking for is uppity? Bonus points if you immediately start falling all over yourself every time a male character exhibits such traits.
3. Pretending you are engaging in feminist critique if said critique only magically appears in relation to one specific showrunner, show, and his specific characters, and gleefully ignores either the broader context of media as a whole and/or the rest of the show's run. Clue: Media is steeped in sexism. All of it. Yes, even that thing you like. It's a tangled, complicated mess that is broader and deeper than which flavor of it entertains you more. Hint: petty nitpicky bashing of female characters as a method of critique? Not helpful. Ever. And please see number one again. Memorize it.
I really hate people. Except you guys. You guys, I love.
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:-D :-D You would be right! And of course this is our first glimpse of the Twelfth Doctor, MY TINFOIL HAT TOLD ME SO.
"You know, I can not like everything about her and also not devolve into inane blather that is hypocritical and makes no sense."
I haven't liked everything about Amy, for that matter, I can in fact understand why someone else might find her personality annoying, and yet I don't have to resort to implying that the actress who plays her "must have" slept with the producer to get the part. Imagine that!
"Seriously DW fandom with it's ISSUES are greater than either show runner's issues, at this point. SHEESH."
Amen.