{"id":250189,"date":"2013-10-18T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T09:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:21:30","slug":"lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-250189 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/attachment\/250190\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mpp1cyVCAd1qlj8quo4_r1_250-150x142.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/attachment\/250191\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mpp1cyVCAd1qlj8quo3_250-150x142.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/attachment\/250192\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mpp1cyVCAd1qlj8quo1_250-150x142.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/attachment\/250193\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mpp1cyVCAd1qlj8quo2_250-150x142.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/attachment\/250194\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mpp1cyVCAd1qlj8quo5_250-150x142.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/attachment\/250195\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mpp1cyVCAd1qlj8quo6_250-150x142.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/attachment\/250196\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mpp1cyVCAd1qlj8quo8_r1_250-150x142.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/attachment\/250197\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mpp1cyVCAd1qlj8quo7_r1_250-150x142.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lamujerarana.tumblr.com\/post\/55379092506\" target=\"_blank\">lamujerarana<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>8 examples of why Steven Moffat is NOT a feminist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gif 1:\u00a0<strong>Fetishizing motherhood and reinforcing patriarchal binaries<\/strong> <strong>and hierarchies<\/strong>\u2014So much wrong with this one. The Doctor argues that mothers are \u201cmore than female\u201d\u2014i.e., better than\u2014those who are not. It plays into pernicious patriarchal myths that women aren\u2019t really women until they\u2019ve given birth, until they\u2019ve had children. Not every woman wants children. Not every woman can have them (for a variety of reasons\u2014including (duh) the fact that some women don\u2019t have uteruses\u2014they\u2019ve had them removed, or they just have penises instead). It doesn\u2019t make them in any way inferior to those who do.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, he asserts that women are better than men, which simply reverses the patriarchal binary and thus evinces a fundamental misunderstanding of what feminism is. Feminism holds that everyone is equal, members of every gender, not that one gender is better than all of the rest. That\u2019s a patriarchal notion. Hierarchies are patriarchal\u2014privileging certain groups of people over others. Communities where everyone is equal, valued, and respected are feminist.<\/p>\n<div>Gif 2:\u00a0<strong>Reinforcing patriarchal stereotypes<\/strong>\u00a0of women as irrational, overly emotional beings, while men are, of course, the sane, rational ones, which is generally used to justify the notion that women should be denied positions of power. \u201cIt all makes sense to her\u201d\u2014i.e., women apparently have some strange sort of emotion-driven non-logic that is fundamentally different from that of men, and that compels them to want to seduce\/marry men and then, like the flighty, irrational creatures they are, want to kill them on a whim. This moment is deeply and unforgivably misogynistic.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gifs 3 and 4: <strong>Romanticizing stalking<\/strong>\u2014Both these women, Kathy Nightingale and Madge Arwell, eventually married the men who were stalking them, which sends the message that stalking is normal, romantic, and acceptable. Also, what if Madge had said no to marrying a complete stranger who finds it acceptable to stalk young women who are walking home alone through fairly isolated woods? Would Reg really have kept stalking her\u2014a complete stranger\u2014until he coerced her into agreeing to marry him?<\/p>\n<p>Gifs 5 and 6: <strong>Victim-blaming and contributing to rape culture<\/strong>\u2014In <em>Time<\/em>, Rory drops a thermocoupling after looking up Amy\u2019s skirt, and Amy, Rory, and the Doctor all place the blame on Amy for wearing a skirt rather than Rory, who apparently has zero self-control (also problematic), or the Doctor, who seems not to have entirely thought through the potential ramifications of having a glass floor. And in gif #4, from <em>Space<\/em>, the Doctor\u2019s ultimate solution to the problem is to order Amy to change into more conservative trousers\u2014i.e., policing a female body\u2014rather than urging Rory to exhibit some self-control. Or altering the desktop theme so that the floor is no longer transparent. The fact that Amy immediately accepts the blame without attempting to argue for a moment is particularly sickening. Essentially, then, this entire skit contributes to rape culture.<\/p>\n<p>Gifs 7 and 8: <strong>Demonizing women<\/strong>,\u00a0which has been par for the course in patriarchy since biblical Eve was first vilified for biting the apple. The implication that River\u2019s attractiveness is why she is \u201chell\u201d is therefore fairly problematic, since it is rather explicitly harking back to those patriarchal myths, as is the Doctor\u2019s tacit endorsement of the medieval monk\u2019s fear of women. Why did he not correct or contest the monk\u2019s rather terrified reaction at learning that the Doctor was conversing with\u2014the horror!\u2014a woman? A simple, \u201cNo. No. Don\u2019t be silly. Women aren\u2019t evil at all.\u201d from the Doctor would have been enough. Also, back to gif 7, how exactly is River\u2019s attractiveness at all related to her decision to save the Doctor\u2019s life? Are they implying that it is because she is sexy that she is so dangerous, which is <em>incredibly<\/em> misogynistic? The Doctor and Churchill are objectifying and belittling her by speaking of her in such a way. River, like every other woman\/being in the universe, deserves more respect. To be treated like a human being, not a piece of meat. If Rory had been the one inside that suit, would they be speaking of him so dismissively? <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fairly obvious that Moffat likes to think of himself as a feminist. But anyone who is capable of writing the above moments (and each and every one is from episodes he wrote himself) clearly does not have a good grasp of what feminism is. Perhaps he should have done his research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lamujerarana: 8 examples of why Steven Moffat is NOT a feminist Gif 1:\u00a0Fetishizing motherhood and reinforcing patriarchal binaries and hierarchies\u2014So much wrong with this one. The Doctor argues that mothers are \u201cmore than female\u201d\u2014i.e., better than\u2014those who are not. It plays into pernicious patriarchal myths that women aren\u2019t really women until they\u2019ve given birth, until &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/18\/lamujerarana-8-examples-of-why-steven-moffat-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24771,24773,24772,6373,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250198,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250189\/revisions\/250198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}