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Whattttt? how did I not know about this?
Quick note: the lines don’t have to point upwards and straight next to each other, you can point them in any direction you want.
I don’t even care if this isn’t official, I’m saving this for future reference!
Sixth Doctor Who Genderbent Jacket DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, this jacket was a lot harder then it should’ve been. Finding all the different pieces for the jacket was insane (there’s technically 10 different materials but i spared myself and only got 8). I of course kept forgetting materials and had to go back to the store like 5 times to get something each time.
Really all that is left is buying the wig, finding a white shirt, and attaching suspenders….really. and i’ll have a genderbent 6th doctor!!! :D The jacket was really the toughest part.
Can’t wait to join the other gals with their genderbent doctors at C2E2!!!
Love it!
Let me love you and your amazing skills! <3
There is something called the Bechdel Test. It’s a scale you run movies through to basically see how conscious of female characters they are.
The test is as follows: 1. It must have at least two named female characters. 2. They must speak to each other. 3. They must converse about something other than a man. Anything with a score lower than 3 fails.
I’ve run all of the episodes of NewWho through this test and here are my results:
Percent of failed episodes written by RTD: 9.7%
By Moffat: 55.6%
Percent of episodes in which there were two named female characters, but they didn’t speak to one another by RTD: 9.7%
By Moffat: 16.7%
Percent of episodes without two named female characters by RTD: 0%
By Moffat: 5.6%
Percent of failed episodes with RTD as showrunner (including those written by other writers): 20%
With Moffat: 67.8%
Percent of episodes in which there were two named female characters, but they didn’t speak to one another with RTD as showrunner: 10%
With Moffat: 25%
Percent of episodes without two named female characters with RTD as showrunner: 0%
With Moffat: 25%
Total percent of failed episodes: 35.2%
Total percent of episodes in which there were two named female characters, but they didn’t speak to one another: 14.8%
Total percent of episodes without two named female characters: 8%RTD did a lot better than Moffat. This is not a go at him, just facts.
Over half of SM’s episodes failed. RTD neither wrote or was showrunner to an episode with less than two named female characters. Moffat wrote one episode with less than two named female characters, and a staggering 25% (1/4!) of episodes with him as showrunner did not include more than one named female character.
My data is here. You can check it if you like, and please tell me if you find any errors. Thanks!
And this is why Moffat is problematic as hell. (Sherlock, much as I enjoy it, is even worse…)
facts on facts on facts
I love this - but I have never wanted a bar chart more.
#doctor who #can I get a bar chart up in here #I’ve never wanted a bar chart more #esp on a tumblr post #feminism
Charts.
it reached the point where I just started to say how much I wish Moffat would leave Doctor Who and let someone else take over… preferably someone who would do better with minority characters and writing plots.
Because as much as I love the twists and turns of Moffat’s plots… they don’t carry substance. And that is a sad fact.
None of this is at all untrue.
One of the things that annoys me the most about this — and I realize this is completely irrational — is that DURING ALL OF THESE EPISODES THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE NAMED FEMALE COMPANION
LIKE SERIOUSLY YOU ARE HALFWAY FUCKING THERE YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO FAIL
FUCKING NONE
(that being said, the Bechdel test is not a perfect indicator of feminism, but FUCKING STILL)
Yes, this.
Bechdel test isn’t a perfect indicator of feminism but it’s PRETTY DAMN BASIC I mean really Moffat, really!
Steven Moffat on Female Characters. (x)
Think about this next time you decide to praise his “not sexist” writing.
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w o w
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yeah he’s a huge bag of shit
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On Saturday, Doctor Who returns, kicking off the second part of the seventh series with a James-Bond inspired episode that sees the Doctor and Clara whizzing round London on a motorbike. Which is exciting if you like interesting drama with witty banter and thoughtful concepts. But less exciting if you like interesting dramas that include women on their writing teams.
Because season seven of Doctor Who will feature no female scribes at all. Not in the bombastic dinosaurs and cowboys episodes that aired last year, and not in any of the new episodes we’re about to receive. In fact, Doctor Who hasn’t aired an episode written by a woman since 2008, 60 episodes ago. There hasn’t been a single female-penned episode in the Moffat era, and in all the time since the show was rebooted in 2005 only one, Helen Raynor, has ever written for the show.
Why Doctor Who needs more female writers (via themostfeminist)
Dramatist and author Stella Duffy – who has noted the absence of women writers, and indeed directors, from Doctor Who on her blog – thinks that there needs to be a conscious effort to recruit writers from outside the usual small pool of male writers. “Try harder. Stop assuming that men can do the job well enough. If women are saying they feel left out (and they do), if women are saying they feel marginalised (and they do), if women are saying they do not see their voices on screen … Listen to them and do something about it,” Duffy says.
“We can knock and knock, but if they won’t let us in, we’ll never get to see how big the Tardis really might be inside. Right now, the Tardis only holds men, so maybe it’s not that big, after all.”
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wow moffat is a woman hating scumbag
who would’ve thought
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- Oh wow v, that dinner was delicious! Just the right amount of ginger, just the right amount of food, and the red wine goes with it deliciously
- *giggles* why thank you, v! I'm glad you liked it!
- I'll do the dishes in a bit, but for now let's just lie back on the sofa to digest and enjoy 1st doctor Doctor Who, yes?
- Mmm sounds like a perfect plan! And perhaps later we'll raid the cabinets for chocolates!
whatever the christmas special was gr9 but…can we pls have a companion who’s…normal? who’s just normal? no double deaths, no cracks in the walls and secret babies, just. a temp who’s loud because she’s afraid no one cares what she has to say, or a medical student looking for escapism and something better than herself. or a dead-end shop girl. like…they’re supposed to grow in to their raw extraordinariness, not shrouded in mystery and one of a kind off the bat. i want the companion to be like me, ordinary at first glance and sort of never given a second glance, but great at my core, and full of potential, and then there’s one person (one alien) who sees what you can do and what you can be.
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My friend just lent me a hard drive containing all of Classic Doctor Who.. I’m so gonna watch as much as possible before going back to Sweden so I can peruse my parents’ huge screen. This picture doesn’t do the size of it justice at all!
