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Doctor Who’s new Doctor is a Woman and I am MAD

David Fox
3 min readJul 16, 2017

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So, you might have heard — The Doctor is a woman now. That’s right. I know. Let it sink in. The lead actor in Doctor Who will be a woman, for the first time ever.

A WOMAN.

I am SO MAD.

Yet another show changing its main character to please the liberal PC snowflakes. Just like…er…

…there are LOADS OF EXAMPLES. I just can’t think of any right now. Anyway, I won’t be watching. As a straight white cis male, I require all content I watch to be about me specifically. What am I supposed to watch now?

My DVDs of every other series of Doctor Who since 1963?

Or maybe some other acclaimed shows heavily featuring straight white cis males: Mad Men, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Seinfeld, Friends, How I Met Your Mother and so many more on my DVD shelves? Sure.

Probably about 90% of all movies ever made? Of course.

But now, there is one thing that I simply CANNOT watch because there is a WOMAN playing a previously…

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David Fox
David Fox

Written by David Fox

The challenges and triumphs of parenting while disabled. Email: davefox990@hotmail.com

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