Badhead

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  1. That is precisely the kind of ill-conceived surface-level reactionary feminism that doesn't help anything. One line encapsulated it all, I think: "Moffat reduces women to wives and mothers."

    Oh, so if a woman becomes a wife or a mother, she's been degraded? What kind of psycho shit is that? The Doctor's become a husband and father multiple times; does that mean he's been "reduced" too?

    No, because male characters in media haven't been mostly restricted to husbands and fathers like women have to being significant others and mothers.

    The Doctor is the main character, the leader, and literally superior—physically and mentally—to all of the companions save maybe River. Other characters are generally going to swept up in his story, not the other way around. That's not sexism, that's a byproduct of storytelling.

    And because of who The Doctor's character is, that should free up plenty of time for his companions to be given character traits and development beyond being "feisty" and being defined only by their relationships to The Doctor/significant other.

    Also, where's the commentary on Rory being repeatedly trodden upon? (Amy treating him like garbage, the Doctor rarely acknowledging him as anything more than a "Pond," etc.) Rory is the sidekick to a sidekick; he gets off worse than any of the Moffat-era female companions.

    There's no way he's worse off as a character than Clara, who merely existed to save The Doctor with no development as to why she would.

    Martha existed to be love sick after the doctor, and to not be Rose. Rose existed to be the special girl who cared for this poor Broken man. I dont see anyone bringing RTD to task