I was looking at Bounding into Comics and there was an article about how Christopher Eccelson was saying that Dr. Who needed more women and that it was a bit of a "boys club". Of course the interviewer didn't ask him why he came to this conclusion after making his money. Someone in the comments asked something I've been asking for the last few years, which was "what is wrong with guys having something that they like?"
Although with Dr. Who, there were female fans going back to the beginning and they were never clamoring for a female doctor. If the show actually wanted to make money they would've just spun off a female time lord or something. This kind of reminds me of James Bond with the whole "men want to be him and women want to be with him", but now they seem to be ruining that character.
This is why I am very skeptical about any female fans or minority fans who can't shut up about representation. I mean just look in the gaming world with that Anita (can't remember her last name) or Zoe Quinn. I never thought that the gaming industry would succumb to this nonsense and it disgusts me when I see all these major comic con events with panels about females or something about racism.
If you are a true fan of something then you won't let the fact that you may not be "represented" stop you. I'm a black guy and was born in 1980. I remember when I first started buying comic books as a kid. Most of the people there were white guys but we bonded over comics. I didn't care about the demographics of the hobby. Same goes for sci-fi books, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. That is why I firmly believe that if you are obsessed with diversity/representation then something is wrong with you. It is the height of arrogance to enter a hobby and then immediately demand that everything has to be about you. Of course the shill media will print endless articles about how evil white male nerds are or how evil star wars fans who don't like the sequel trilogy are. Although the funniest ones are how evil gamers are. Most nerds thought it was awesome if a woman showed interest in that stuff. I'm single now and I joke sometimes that if I went on a date and my date said that playing Skyrim is one of her passions I would propose on the spot.
The arguments against gatekeeping always were worthless.
And the complaints spawning from it were always veiled complaints that autistic ugly men dared talk to them. Seriously, every single gatekeeping "incident" I've heard has been "and then this overweight awkward guy said 'what's your favorite anime? Voice actor? Character?' as if I should know what an 'anime' or 'character' is just because I said I was an anime fan!"
Those crack me up the most. Women who complain about being “interrogated about lore”. Omg he asked me what comic books I like! Lol