Gender, race identity and the youthful world of imagination

[futurebird]

I've been binge watching the "new" Dr. Who. In general I'm a fan, the revival is great and in some ways better the the original (though the nostalgia I get from old episodes will never die.) Dr. Who had a big impact on me as a child he's always been a kind of fictional role model for what it means to be brave, curious and endlessly drivven to

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[oonh]

What I really would like to see is a strong, black, female problem solver. (someone who, given some sort of problem that needs to be solved, solves it by reason and deduction and inferential reasoning rather than just being another gun moll).

The Doctor these days is mostly a deus ex machinist -- he goes and sez "I am the Doctor" and the baddied explode, or start eating their own spleens.

[purejuice]

always great to hear a post from you.
i think olivia butler's shape-shifting black heroine (in which book, i cannot now remember) or virginia woolf's orlando, a sex-shifting white heroine, address just the tip of the iceberg on this. and, what a good kid you were, and what a good mom you had.

[jumpyfox]

I guess I missed your Birthday, so Happy Belated Birthday

[jumpyfox]

In all honesty I think it's time that white people get off their high horse and fully understand just how much they truly suck in the whole scheme of things. I can say this. I'm white! White people had the power to make cities and infrastructure that functioned and instead we got what we have now which isn't very much sometimes. Our cities don't function. Our country barely functions. White people get all kinds of good feelings to be able to look down on other people but the truth is they really aren't much better themselves. If you need someone to look down upon to feel better, then you yourself aren't a very good person either. If you were truly an okay person, you wouldn't need to look down on someone. If you were truly okay with yourself, you wouldn't need someone to compare yourself to

[drjon]

I wonder what 9-Years-Ago You would have thought about Jodie Whittaker's 14th Doctor, or Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor...