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why I don't like a female doctor.


The idea that gender is unimportant and irrelevant .As if changing a characters gender was as simple as changing their clothes.

A persons gender,male female,other or however you choose to define yourself,is a huge chunk of an individual's identity.Gender greatly defines who we are as people and how we relate to the world.Men and women should be treated as equals yes but men and women are not the same.

It's one thing to change the Doctors face,mannerisms and race even.Because a guy relate to another guy.But changing his gender and calling it the same character feels ridiculous. by changing the doctors gender IMO thier taking a huge chunk of the doctors identity and chucking it into the gutter essentially creating an entirely new character.

As a fan I'll continue to watch and I'm sure this Jodie Whittaker will be entertaining enough.But although she may be a Doctor I will never think of her as the Doctor.

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Me either. I'm in the US and stopped watching when Capaldi became the Doctor. I just had/have zero interest in him as the Doctor. I see, I will have less for this woman.

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