{"id":95790,"date":"2016-06-22T17:07:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T17:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/22\/real-life-lucanite-i-want-to-see-a-female\/"},"modified":"2016-06-22T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T17:07:02","slug":"real-life-lucanite-i-want-to-see-a-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/22\/real-life-lucanite-i-want-to-see-a-female\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/real-life-lucanite.tumblr.com\/post\/146152441187\" target=\"_blank\">real-life-lucanite<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I want to see a female Doctor Who. I want to see someone with 900 years of experience of presenting as a white man, suddenly having to navigate the world as a woman. I want The Doctor to walk into an emergency situation and start taking control as always, and being dismissed out of hand, and being totally thrown by it. I want the Doctor to realise that even with psychic paper people are going to be suspicious and questioning of their expertise. I want to see The Doctor being mistaken for their assistant. I want to watch The Doctor, as they realise that people didn\u2019t just listen to them because they were clever, or right, but because they presented as a man. And come to terms with that, and fight back against the institutionalised sexism, whilst also fighting aliens I guess?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, I was watching some first season New-Who today and just thinking \u201cI wonder how this scene would have played out if The Doctor were a woman.\u201d and yeah. Food for Thought. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>real-life-lucanite: I want to see a female Doctor Who. I want to see someone with 900 years of experience of presenting as a white man, suddenly having to navigate the world as a woman. I want The Doctor to walk into an emergency situation and start taking control as always, and being dismissed out of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/22\/real-life-lucanite-i-want-to-see-a-female\/\" 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":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12037,13,12034,12036,12035,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95790"}],"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=95790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}