{"id":21424,"date":"2017-07-18T01:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21424"},"modified":"2017-07-18T01:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:22:34","slug":"shes-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21424","title":{"rendered":"She’s Doctor Who"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TomI told you! Back in January, I speculated that the odds of the next Doctor Who being female<\/a> were good.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not beat about the bush here. The fact that the new Doctor Who will<\/strong> be female is contrived \u2013 contrived with a capital \u201cC\u201d. The media response to it just highlights the fact.<\/p>\n

The Huffington Post has \u201cGirl\u2019s Reaction To Jodie Whittaker Announcement Sums Up How Important A Female Doctor Is \u201c. The BBC is busy blowing its own trumpet, with \u201cJodie Whittaker and the other sci-fi women breaking the glass ceiling<\/a>\u201d. The BBC also has \u201cDoctor Who: Prime Minister welcomes first female Time Lord<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

As I said back in January, the titular character in Doctor Who was never intended to be anything other than male. That\u2019s no slight on women, it\u2019s just the way it is. This current situation might well satisfy the right-on BBC and the rabid feminists out there, but it is roughly the equivalent of casting Tom and Jerry as an aardvark and a lemur (in that order). It just doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n

Now, when this one\u2019s tenure ends, what are the odds of the next Doctor being transgender?<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been getting a few comments from people on this story. Just to clarify:<\/p>\n