yes still angry about moffat
Also he goes on to defend the way he writes women because essentially “I WROTE RIVER SONG HOW COULD I BE SEXIST??”
okay first of all buddy
you chose to phrase it as having a “fetish for powerful women”
think very carefully about why that might have been a bad idea
secondly, river’s entire life is centered around the doctor’s? The disconnect here is, of course, that moffat doesn’t realize that having a female character with superficially “strong” characteristics is not an inherently feminist portrayal of women if their lives revolve entirely around men. You don’t just write the character, you write the entire world they reside in and the way the moral order of that world treats their decisions and allegiances. making her a capable fighter or time traveler or what have you doesn’t make her free of sexist influences?
I know this is probably a rehash for a lot of people. i probably wouldn’t be this annoyed about it if moffat wasn’t so smug about absolutely everything. There are plenty of shows and movies with terrible or insufficient portrayals of women/queer characters/POCs/etc, and I am entirely capable of enjoying the shit out of them, or loving the women/queer characters/POCs they do create. (River Song is a beast, for the most part!!) But when you as a creator start proclaiming how progressive and non-sexist you are you need to back your shit up instead of telling everybody else that they are the sexist ones for telling you what you’re doing badly!
Because that is an actual thing that moffat did
it was gross
He wrote a strong female character. And then he made her entire life about the Doctor. He had her taken as an infant and tortured for years to make her all. about. the. Doctor.
He mentally and emotionally eviscerated her free will. He turned her into the female character equivalent of a brainwashed “sexy” plaything for the Doctor.
“Fetish” is precisely the right word for this. It isn’t about writing women as people. It’s about writing women as types of sexual playthings. And his “fetish” isn’t for mentally strong women, apparently. It’s for physically strong women who are allowed no free will. Who are made unquestionably loyal, who belong to a man heart, soul, and body. So much so that there is no quarter left for anything else: everything she accomplished was rewritten to be about the Doctor. And all this was done through torture and brainwashing from the time they were infants.
Nice sexual fantasy you’ve got there, Steven.
and then when we get a women who is both physically and mentally strong enough to deal with being isolated against her will for thirty years when everything is trying to kill her, who becomes a genius capable of manufacturing a sonic probe from scavenged materials? he destroys her to return to the status quo.
Yeah, well. She wasn’t fuckable from his point of view anymore, right? She was questioning the Doctor and she wasn’t physically perfect anymore.
So let’s just kill her.
Why one earth should a woman exist if not to please the men around her? And if she ceases to please them, just get rid of her.
And this is why I can’t ship or support River and the Doctor anymore.
You’re all so fucking stupid.
“She wasn’t fuckable from his point of view anymore”
what?
what?
she was
he never
that was not
jesus
