I really don't think that fans of Doctor Who are against the Doctor being black, gay or a woman. But since he has never heralded being white, straight or a man I don't see how his being anything other than The Doctor is important to his stories.
This is 90s thinking.
Yes, it's accurate to say that there's nothing wrong with a female or Black Doctor, per se, but in current year, every single time, it's done for the sole purpose of subversion by radicals.
I don't watch anything that "prominently centers" women, queers, or non-Whites. Not specifically because I have a problem with those groups, but because I know the writing will be contemporary SoCal Rainbow preaching disguised as whatever the show was supposed to be.
I'm pretty sure The Jeffersons, Barney Miller, That's My Mama, Soap, Murphy Brown, Maude, Three's Company, Gidget and Are You Being Served all handled those topics well enough before the 90s.
But you are perfectly correct, in 'current year' a big hooha has to be made about these issues. And if that's not pimping out 'eccentricities' I don't know what is.
Once upon a time we could laugh at the only gay in the village, or "I'm a lady". But now, it's "Computer says no!".
To think that the BBC took on us basement dwelling outcasts of society and lost royally in front of the entire world. That's gotta sting.
This is 90s thinking.
Yes, it's accurate to say that there's nothing wrong with a female or Black Doctor, per se, but in current year, every single time, it's done for the sole purpose of subversion by radicals.
I don't watch anything that "prominently centers" women, queers, or non-Whites. Not specifically because I have a problem with those groups, but because I know the writing will be contemporary SoCal Rainbow preaching disguised as whatever the show was supposed to be.
I'm pretty sure The Jeffersons, Barney Miller, That's My Mama, Soap, Murphy Brown, Maude, Three's Company, Gidget and Are You Being Served all handled those topics well enough before the 90s.
But you are perfectly correct, in 'current year' a big hooha has to be made about these issues. And if that's not pimping out 'eccentricities' I don't know what is.
Once upon a time we could laugh at the only gay in the village, or "I'm a lady". But now, it's "Computer says no!".
To think that the BBC took on us basement dwelling outcasts of society and lost royally in front of the entire world. That's gotta sting.