Dr Who

[whurules]

Woman Dr who what an absolute joke,probably on my own here but never mind,I'm old school ,things that men do and things that women do and they shouldn't mix, please don't have a go just my opinion and I've had the day from hell so far

[Lie-in King]

Discussion here -

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1561684.html

[Mamyalynne]

Sorry you've had a bad day and sorry you're not happy with the choice too.

[whurules]

Sorry, didn't see it in the news section just assumed it would have been posted in media and TV,!!

[EcclesCake]

I never knew the title Dr was gender specific.

[Fitzer]

So only men time travel and fight aliens? :-)

[-Talbot-]

It will be very difficult to take Dr Who serious now there's a woman playing the Dr.

[mikey4444]

Has anyone ever taken this children's program seriously ?

[-Talbot-]

oh hang on ... I have just remembered it is for kids anyway.

[Guilbert53]

>>>things that men do and things that women do

Sorry but that is a pathetic attitude.

I am currently reading a book about Margaret Thatcher and when she was at a University in Oxford in the 1940s she was heavily involved in politics but was not allowed to join the Oxford Union as it was men only. How awful is that.

In the 1880s Beatrix Potter was somewhat of an expert on Mushrooms and Toadstools and she wanted to give a talk at a scientific society.

But only men were allowed to present at that society and so a man had to give her presentation while she sat in the audience. How awful is that.

In the 1920s some women wanted to play football in the UK and they played for a while then the FA banned women's football. How awful is that.

I am a man and the way men have treated women has been downright disgraceful over the centuries, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

I really thought that attitude had changed but after reading your append it seems it has not.

[Mamyalynne]

Seriously?

Surely one takes News,Documentaries and the like seriously.

Entertainment is watched for - erm pleasure, fun - what's the fuss about?

[Old_Geezer]

But nostalgia is serious !

Yeah you're right about Maggie. Maybe if she'd been allowed in the union she'd have been less driven to achieve high position to show them, and the country wouldn't have had to endure her reign as PM.

[woofgang]

If you don’t want people to have a go at an antediluvian opinion then why did you post?

[Islay]

Mmmmm

[Dee-M-See]

If you think being a woman is bad,wait till they find out she is a Lesbian

[gness]

I don't know who Guilbert is but I like him........if I was in the market for husband number three I'd be fluttering my eyelashes..... ;-)

[johnk]

As the father of a female bricklayer I have no problem with women in any job were they can perform as well as men but in this case I don't think she will but let's wait and see.

[murraymints]

ehhmmmm...it's no' real !!

[dance2trance]

The Doctor is a pan dimensional energy force whose physical appearance to the human life forms on earth (and presumably elsewhere) whom he 'pets' (the 'babbling children' as Bill put it, or 'ants' as Missy put it, or 'pages in a forgotten book' as Madame de Maintenon put it) is just a costume. The skin of a snake. His appearance is an illusory mode of thought.

[Backdrifter]

A few years ago I’d have thought it was a daft idea but the plotlines have allowed for it, so as long as there’s some “internal” logic for it I’m not bothered. Plus I’ve been feeling for a while that it’s grown stale and complacent, and is in need of a firm kick up the rear end. This will help, but it also needs strong storylines and scripts, and maybe a jarringly different kind of companion as most of the previous ones have felt a bit indentikit to me. Throw in a good strong performance by JW and maybe the show will revive. As well as Broadchurch I’ve seen JW in other TV dramas, a few stage productions and she already showed her alien-combating skills in the excellent Attack The Block.

There are always a few people dismissing it as “just” a kids’ show but I think that’s an oversimplification. I think “family show” is a better fit, a lot of the time it is more PG/12 than U, as it were. I remember as a kid my whole family watching it on a Saturday early evening.

It does make me chuckle to see the usual old “PC gone mad” mantra being intoned here and elsewhere. One out of 13 times (14 if you count John Hurt) across more than 50 years the role of a shapeshifting member of an alien species who have been shown as able to change sex is played by a woman. As said above, all kinds of aspects of the show have changed over the decades and especially the last 12 years, this is just another one.