I feel like Thirteen is already a better person than some of her previous regenerations and she’s still learning who she is.
What I mean by “better person” should probably be explained. The doctor can customarily save the world two times over and he’s succeeded in his mission but then he doesn’t see the fault in treating his companion unfairly, consciously or unconsciously throwing them into danger, or not being concerned with their lives.
Thirteen is… a little different. From the beginning, she displayed so much kindness and empathy towards her companions. She went to Grace’s funeral, watched Ryan go up to the hill to ride his bike, asked about their lives and cared about their respective situations.
— maybe he doesn’t always mean to, but the Doctor could be rather careless about his companions lives and almost immediately wants to invite them to run away with him. Thirteen didn’t. She stayed. She cared. She listened.
In Rosa, she understood that this wasn’t a safe environment for Yaz and Ryan, and told them to sit it out, but they stayed because they wanted to. She asks if they’re okay and tells them to be careful.
— not the Doctor inadvertently coaxing them into a risky situation with little to no concern or like Ten not really being understanding of Martha’s concern about her race in the era they were in.
Even in this preview clip from the next episode, Thirteen keeps her promise to bring them home and literally doesn’t ask them to stay, even though she has clearly become attached to them and wants them to, and is so excited when Yaz invites her in for tea.
And this doesn’t take away from anything else. Thirteen is just as fierce and effective as the other doctors where it concerns saving the world and protecting people, but she’s just a lot nicer and more caring when it’s necessary to be.
(P.S. I don’t mean all of the previous regenerations are guilty of the faults I detail above, just some of them.)
fuck every democrat who says the issue of trans rights is a “distraction.” fuck every single liberal who say that the threat of stripping every trans person of legal recognition is a red herring or a losing issue and if we focus on it too long we’ll throw the election. we’re talking about human rights, access to medical care, sex education, discrimination, citizenship, and a whole lot else, for millions of people.
trans people aren’t a “distraction.” we’re human beings. the fact that so many liberals turn their backs on trans people is fucking despicable.
Okay…but this, right here? This is exactly what the Republican party wants. Young voters turning against the Democratic party and either not voting at all, or voting in favor of some third party candidate that has literally zero chance of pulling in enough votes to win. They want division among the ranks. They want to split our vote.
In political terms, calling something a ‘distraction’ means it’s a distraction tactic, not that the issue itself isn’t important. The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting the “hot-headed liberals” all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves. They deliberately drop issues that they know are hot-button topics because these are the topics that have the potential to be the most divisive.
They’re awful but they’re not dumb. They know trans rights is an issue that could potentially split the democratic vote. It’s an issue that’s very heavily weighted toward the younger side of the party, which again, was a deliberate move on their part. If they can convinced you that the “big bad Democrats don’t care about you little trans and nonbinary kids so why bother,” then they’ve effectively won the election in a walk because the democrats went in divided–again.
Look, the democratic party isn’t perfect. Not by a long shot. But it’s literally the only party that has a snowball’s chance in hell at overtaking the republican majority right now. If we as trans and nonbinary individuals ever want our identities respected and protected, it’s the only party that’s going to be able to get us there, because it’s the party going in the direction we need to go. If you want to vote in favor of our rights, then vote Democrat. No number of videos with pennies is going to change the fact that right now, in this political climate, third party candidates are not going to have enough power to effect the changes we want.
Warning against something being a distraction doesn’t mean “don’t look at it or worry about it,” it means, “hey, I know this is majorly upsetting, and absolutely something needs to be done, but don’t let it divide us.” It’s literally because the issue is so important that democrats are warning against it as a distraction tactic–if we want to prevent that kind of change from happening under republican rule, we have to keep our heads and not let them keep us from voting as a unified party.
Please don’t let the political rhetoric make you think that the democratic party isn’t going to be fighting for us and our rights. That’s kind of exactly what the Republican party wants you to think. It’s a division tactic. Don’t fall for it.
The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting the “hot-headed liberals” all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
I’ve been voting since 1998. This is what they do every single election.
Yaz and Ryan’s utter amazement at meeting Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. respectively was the best part of this episode, and I loved Graham saying he was Steve Jobs and was trying to market a smart phone, LOL. XD Jodie continues to hit it out of the park as well. I loved her channeling 12 by writing on the wall. I also love how they all work as a team to make sure history stays on course. The only bad thing is that the villian Krasko was really flat, but at least the other guest characters were top-notch, especially Rosa herself.
The villain wasn’t the point though. There’s plenty of people just like him in everyday life. He was recognizable enough as it were. So why waste time going more in depth on him?
^^^ Exactly. As @lilbasthet so aptly said, “racism is the monster of the week”. Not just Krasko, but the whole social and political milieu of Alabama 1955. The ex-con space racist was just an excuse for the Doctor and her friends to be there and bear witness.
Jesus Christ was a brown Jew in the Middle East, conceived out of wedlock in an arguably interracial if not interspecies (deity and human) relationship, raised by his mother and stepfather in place of his absent father. He may not have had a Y chromosome. He spent his early youth as a refugee in Egypt, where his family no doubt survived initially on handouts from the wealthy (You think they kept that gold, frankincense, and myrrh from the wise men? Hell no, they sold that stuff for food and lodging). He later returned with his parents to their occupied homeland and lived in poverty.
Trump and his administration are xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, fear-mongering, warmongering, tax-dodging, anti-Semitic, anti-choice, anti-welfare, anti-equal pay, anti-LGBTQIA+, anti-immigration, support tax cuts for the rich, support Citizen’s United, want to keep refugees out of this country, want to limit our ability to speak against the government, plan to abolish the Affordable Care Act, and they wrap all of that up behind a banner of “Christian family values.” If you support them, you have no right to call yourself a follower of Christ.
it’s so rare, yet so fulfilling, to see the J-man on my dash
One of my friends is literally the most religious Christian I have ever met. What does that mean in regards to her lifestyle and outlook? She loves everyone. EVERYONE. Unconditionally. And she supports healthcare and education and birth control and everything that’s necessary to have a healthy, stable society.
