why I don't like a female doctor.

Wrong. Bond even referred to her "predecessor" in Judi Dench's first scene in Golden Eye (telling her where he kept the cognac in her office; she replies by saying she prefers bourbon), and she called him a "dinosaur". They discuss him not liking her methods and their conversation makes it clear she's new.

There's even a portrait of the original "M" (played by Bernard Lee) hanging on the wall in 1999's The World is Not Enough. The second "M" was Admiral Hargreaves (played by Robert Brown) who had previously appeared in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me and had since been promoted to replace the former guy.

The last Bond film in the classic series was 2002's Die Another Day. The Daniel Craig ones were a complete reboot operating in a different universe, so Dench wasn't even really playing the same character she had in the past few movies, lol.

Ralph Finnes didn't become M until AFTER Judi Dench left the role, and Huston & Niven were "M" in a PARODY of James Bond. Fox was M in an unofficial James Bond movie not authorized by MGM. For all intents and purposes, there were only two M's before Judi Dench took the role. That's pretty different than having 13 male Doctors before casting a female one.

It's called taking your insipid logic to its conclusion to illustrate its flaws. And even in this New Who crap show the Doctor isn't a woman. They've turned him into a sex fluid freak. No real female empowerment there. The whole thing is myopic and stupid for reasons spelled out all over this thread and board. Most female Who fans I know prefer the real, male Doctor Who, just as men prefer Wonder Woman stay female.

"How hard is that to understand? It's not. Y'all just hate the idea of a women taking over what's been a traditional male role for over 50 years."

Because most of us see this new female doctor who as being a contrived consequence of the political climate we live in today.

"Heck, I'd like to see a black or Anglo-Indian Doctor Who in the future too,now that I think about it. That would be even cooler,lol. "
Exactly. Its not about the show for you anymore its about a political agenda.

"I'm asking the OP how the gender of the tv character is more important to them in relating to what they do than their personality, mannerisms, kindness, courage etc."

Mannerisms or personality traits are relatively not very important because much like the idea of regeneration as people we are always changing and evolving.I don't have the same personality traits or like the same things I did 10 years ago.That doesn't mean I'm a different person.I've just grown and learned as a person.

Gender on the other hand is a core part of a person's self.If I woke up tomorrow as a woman I would be completely lost.My views on the world and how the world perceives me would have dramatically shifted.in other words I would be a completely different person.

You can't change the Doctors gender and say it's the same person.Because men and women are not the same or interchangeable.

And he and I both explained it to you. Are you dense? Time Lords and "Ladies" always placed as much importance on their gender as humans did until Moffat recently forced in the crap you're referring to. They've been more firmly established as reproducing sexually, marrying, and raising children in nuclear families like humans do, which wouldn't work if one spouse could suddenly switch sexes with any regeneration. I started a thread a while back making a similar argument that the op did. This gender bending crap is shallow pandering to the PC SJW brigade, nothing more. It's not well thought out. But I pointed out that, regardless of intent, trying to reduce gender to something as cosmetic and malleable as hair or eye color unwittingly undermines the notion that gender should be treated as an important aspect of one's identity, and that, for example, tax payers should be on the hook for things like funding sexual reassignment surgery. By Moffat's blind "logic" they should instead tell transgendered people that gender doesn't matter so it's not worth the fuss, and to get over it.

Gender is a core part of people's identity. Men and woman are very different, and that's a good thing. It makes life more interesting. Pretending otherwise is going in the wrong direction. That's in addition to all the other sound reasons to oppose what the BBC is doing.

"I'm asking the OP how the gender of the tv character is more important to them in relating to what they do than their personality, mannerisms, kindness, courage etc. "

Be cause each actor brings in their own unique personalities to the show. This gender flip is an attempt to appease the current political climate and is viewed as contrived. It just feels like politics dominated the decision to generflip Dr. Who. Had this happened earlier like the 80s or something it'd be less of an eye role.

My feeling is that the Doctor being presented as a male is justified but not compulsory. I don't believe there needs to be a change but I'm not imposed to trying it. I am opposed to efforts to politicise the character for social engineering purposes. It's not entirely clear which reason or motivation has influenced the producers or executives who greenlight decisions for the show.

For my part, I'm happy to interpret and contextualise the decision in my own way unhindered or influenced or lead by media organisations/broadcasters. We'll see how the stories are written and performed and to what degree these promote a political agenda or doctrine.

Also, I agree that creating a female Time Lord character is entirely viable. Maybe the issue is who is the most popular character, who is the central hero, who is the authority figure in the story? Here it is the Doctor above and beyond anyone else in the story. Everyone watching tends to assume this idea based on the title of the show and who seems to be defining the stories. The Doctor is a powerful individual so what's stopping female characters being powerful individuals? In the mind of the producers it may be because other characters are simply secondary characters despite the promotion/engineering of contemporary style characters and the general writing of stories.

krl97a:

Why don't you stop acting as if Dr. Who being a woman brings down or diminishes the character in some way? It dosen't---it merely makes the character more interesting. I mean, you had to problem with the characters regenerating into man after man, but soon as that same character becomes female, you're all like, "Aaaaaargh! Dr. Who is a he, and he can't be a woman because he's already a man! Aaaaaargh again!Aaaaargh! The world as I know it is ending because Dr. Who went and got a sex change!" LOL! Nah, it's just yet another reincarnation/regeneration the Time Lord's going through, that's all. He's a woman now---get over it. Of course,being a woman now,she'll bring a different approach to things as well as a different point of view----not a damn thing wrong with that. You're basically saying that those alone are reason the Time Lord shouldn't be a woman, which make no damn sense whatsoever. she is what she is now---deal with it.