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white_hart ([personal profile] white_hart) wrote2017-07-05 07:17 pm

I shouldn't read about fandom things in non-fandom spaces...

Because I was so utterly bowled over by the last couple of episodes of the latest series of Doctor Who, I have been reading all the discussion of them I can find. Including in the Doctor Who group on Ravelry, which was probably a mistake as it's full of casual viewers and people who think there's too much about gender and it should just be about the adventures, and someone who (a) appears to think that Steven Moffatt is "pushing" non-heterosexual characters because he's gay himself and (b) followed that up by responding to someone who said that RTD was gay and they hadn't been aware that Moffatt was (presumably because he isn't) with "RTD doesn’t make a big deal out of it like Moffat". I'm sorry, are we talking about the same RTD here? Russell T. "Gay Agenda" Davies? I'm quite used to seeing charges of misogyny levelled at Moffatt while no-one mentions the misogynist beam in RTD's oeuvre, but this is a new one on me...
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[personal profile] sir_guinglain 2017-07-07 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
I missed this earlier. Fascinating. I always try to be nice about Doctor Who because there is always something in it that I love, and I love what different contributors bring to it. There's a lot of vileness, though, and lots of people wanting to stir it up because it seems to be the only way they can express their affection for the programme. It feels like a form of PTSD transference, if such a thing exists; if you were a child in a traumatic situation and you thought this series was the one thing which would never change while everything else was collapsing around you, and then you grow up and find that not only do you change, the programme does too, it might feel like an impossible betrayal which you take out on everyone else.