Brilliant, Brilliant blog post FAO @stevenmoffatt

[miss_s_b]

I read this this morning, and my immediate thought was YES!

Part of the reason I never got on with Russel T Davies' vision of Doctor Who was that it was so clear he had grown up wanting to be the Doctor's COMPANION. I never wanted to travel WITH the Doctor; I wanted to BE the Doctor. I wanted to be Dennis the Menace and Batman and Mr Spock and Judge Dredd too. And I wanted to be Freddie Mercury and Alice Cooper and Bruce Dickinson. And later I wanted to be Rumpole, or Paddy Ashdown. Like the first commenter on that post, it never occurred to me (and I thank my Dad for that) that because all my heroes were boys, I wasn't supposed to want to be like them, I was supposed to want to be WITH them, to be their soppy female helpmeet.

My Holly wants to be a Green Lantern.



At least that's a narrative possibility - there ARE female green lanterns, even if they are generally peripheral to the male ones.

I hate this world, that it tries to frustrate her dreams of awesomeness and give her dreams of playing second fiddle instead. My little girl is amazing, and she deserves to have amazing heroes to look up to and dream of emulating. Why is there still, after so many years, only a handful? Why do Ripley and Wonder Woman have to shoulder this burden alone? DAMMIT, WORLD, GIVE ME MORE FEMALE HEROES!

Comments

[miss_s_b]

River is ace. And Holly adores her. Interestingly, she's gone off Amy since Amy became a baby factory. She LOVED Amy last series. 8 year olds can be so perceptive.

I have been watching Doctor Who from being tiny, and my first love is Six. He's big and brash and loud and not ashamed of his ginormous brane, and he Gets Things Done and he fights injustice (look, I can see the flaws in Trial of a Timelord NOW, but when I was Holly's age? I just loved seeing him rail against suthority). His gender never even entered my head.

[trialia]

Mm.

It's not really about the Doctor's gender in itself, so much as that I like feeling I can identify with characters, and I could never really identify with the Doctor until recently. I think part of it could be that Matt is also a lot closer to my age than any previous Doctor has been. That said, I'd kill to have them write the next one as female-identified - that would be a departure and pretty damn cool. There's some wonderful fanfic out there that writes the Doctor as a woman and married to River. Though I'm sure there would be howls from some quarters. But this queer woman wouldn't mind that at ALL.

[miss_s_b]

Yes.

Or, you know, a lesbian Silurian Victorian adventuress spin-off could be cool too.

[trialia]

*grins* That, too. I definitely liked Vastra and Jenny.