As long as the show isn't all about feminism and female empowerment nothing has changed- you just have a talented female reprising the role that had been filled by an annoying Scottish man most recently.
The likelihood of this happening is practically zero. There will be numerous occasions where the Doctor will lament people not taking her seriously because "muh soggy knees" and every other "strong female protagonist" trope they lifted straight out of TV Tropes. Expect some "jokes" about "you wouldn't hit a woman", "I can do anything you can do but better", and all the other bullshit we've been subjected to since the 70s. I'll bet they even work a mansplaining line in at least once.
There is just no way this show won't be a mess self-indulgent feminist/progressive bullshit. It largely was, already, and having muh strong female lead will just give them every excuse to turn it up to 11.
Let's wait until they show the first episode before we write the script for them. I'm sure there will be some light-hearted jokes on the matter, for sure; and there's nothing wrong with that. They've already had jokes at the expense of both England and Scotland with their Scottish actors on-board. Nothing to offend anyone. If they turn it into a "let's bash men" show then we have a reason to complain, but so far I have no evidence that they have, so there's nothing for anyone to complain about.
Why is this modded up? Pretty sure you're trolling here.
But in case you really didn't get the OP:
"Feminism" used to mean "equality".
"Feminism" today tends to refer to "Third Wave Feminism", which is looking less and less interested in equality. For citations, have you not been paying attention for the last 4 or 5 years?
It's similar to how "Diversity" in the U.S.A. this decade is more and more starting to mean "Fuck White People".
Summed up, the intent is fine. The execution.....is leaving a lot to be desired.
No, feminism still means equality. Misandry means hatred of men or promotion of women above men, and I won't disagree... some people are guilty of this. Diversity still means "diversity"; if a company is 100% black, hiring a white person would still be "diversity" in that company. The words still mean the same thing; the thing that has changed the most is some people are resisting the changes now that they are a little closer to realization than they once were.
I am a white male; I am pro feminism and diversity. I am still against misandry and racism against white people - but those are two completely different things and you can't really accuse the BBC of either of those things.
I can't speak for everyone, but I imagine a large number of anti "female doctor" are at least a little sexist. Now, if the show starts up and it is bashing men; I will apologise and join in the criticism- until then, nothing wrong has been done hiring a woman.
Yes, in theory Femanism is about men and women being equal.
In practice a lot of femanists want to be more equal than men. As in equal in all aspects, except where things scew towards favoring women.
There is also a rather large group of "Femanists" that want revenge equalism. These feel that since men have had it good for so long, now women should get an advantage in everything over men.
That would be misandry rather than feminism, and I do agree that a number of self-proclaimed feminists are really misandrists; however, Doctor Who has never strayed into misandry even if it is has had feminist themes at times. Doctor Who, that I've seen, has never been more than promoting themes of equality.
Feminism and other political nonsense have also infected the show. I hate when politics infect a show. I groan every time I get slapped in the face with political correctness, feminism, etc. It destroys the show.
Feminism: the belief that women should be treated equal to men.
So you're saying if a woman is treated equal to a man on a show it destroys the show? A show is only worth watching if women are treated like crap? OK... whatever floats your boat.
Am I the only one wondering why a British TV series was having production work done in the US?
A lot of American film has work done in British studios. A lot of British film has work done in American studios. The industry has been internationalized for decades. Americans have been using Pinewood studios since the early days of TV and the British have been taking advantage of expertise in Hollywood- if you pay attention to closing credits; lots of Hollywood blockbusters have European centres involved. It's nothing new.
Please, point me to the part of Dr Who lore that says upon regeneration, the doctor must be male?
It's more interesting that you find the mere presence of a woman on your screen to be such a political and subversive act... How do you make the magic box go bright using the pointy-clicker?
I believe that Dr. Who is one of the few shows which CAN get away with switching the gender of the lead star at it being acceptable to canon.
Now, I do hope the doctor was chosen because she was perceived by Chibnal to be the best person for the job, and not only for being a woman. Jodie Whittaker is certainly a talented actress and I'm sure she can pull it off. As long as the show isn't all about feminism and female empowerment nothing has changed- you just have a talented female reprising the role that had been filled by an annoying Scottish man most recently.
Wrong. Apple is making more than 60% profit on anything they sell. It's just pure greed
It is a corporation's duty to get the best return on investment for it's investors. That's the way of Western Society- even in the more socialist countries of the west. I personally am not willing to pay the Apple premium, but I don't think that it is wrong them trying to get the most profit they can.
A thousand dollar phone better last six or seven years (even if you have to drop it off at a service center every couple years to have the battery replaced).
Meanwhile, you're right on that money that phones from the likes of OnePlus continue to pump out features and performance at a price tag fully half that of the major flagships.
The kind of person willing to spend $1000 for a top-tier phone is not the kind of person who would be willing to keep the same phone for 7 years. Especially since, two years after it is released there will be $250 phones that are more powerful.
Seeing how they've tried to run the franchise into the ground, especially with the Last Jedi, have to say that the longer those rights are kept out of their hands, the better.
I can easily imagine Han not shooting first being made trivial by Disney edits...
I can see them dedicating an entire spin off based around whether he shot first or not.
Hipsters... buying hipster coffee... with hipster money... using their hipster phones... so they can sit their with their hipster Macbooks... using their hipster apps to post pictures to hipster social media... so that other fucking hipsters spending their hipster money in hipster coffee shops can all knowingly nod their hipster beards in what passes as a hipster gesture of approval before posting their own hipster drivel.
It's mother fucking hipsters all the way down, I tell 'ya.
Let me guess... you disliked hipsters before it was cool to dislike hipsters.
The problem with bitcoins is that they are too volatile.
I'm sure Microsoft can manage a sufficiently fast price update rate using DirectX 12.0.
That's not the problem. The problem is that there can only be half a dozen Bitcoin transactions per second IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
This means the Bitcoin transaction fee will cost more than three times what the coffee is worth.
Serious question: I wonder if anybody at Starbucks or Microsoft actually knows how Bitcoin works?
I imagine most people who buy a coffee with bitcoin using this method will do it for the novelty of it- and only a few times- so it's not likely to stress out bitcoin's infrastructure. People don't buy bitcoin so they can buy coffee... that's not bitcoin's main purpose. Bitcoin is more practical when used for large exchanges of wealth and goods.
Sometimes you need someone to pull the plug without mercy. When my father was dying from cancer in the hospital, I was the designated the plug puller because he knew I would make the decision without delay. My older brother wasn't that decisive. Although I got a lot of crap from my extended family, I have no regrets for following my father's last instructions.
One could say that it was empathy that made you not want your father to suffer; that you wanted him to have as much dignity as possible in his last minutes.
Either way, I'm not saying that reason and rationale are not important, merely, that sentimentality and empathy are very important and necessary. That some people found it hard to turn off a pleading robot- is a good thing. That some people thought about it first, is also a good thing. Your father, presumably, wasn't pleading for his life- if he were, I've no doubt you wouldn't pull the plug.
There is plenty of empathy in the US. Actually I would say, on a whole, it seems a lot more empathetic than places I lived in Europe... it's just not evenly distributed amongst all people in America.
It sound cold but it's true. Think of all the relationships people can't get out of because the partner threatens to hurt themselves.
A good friend of mine in college dated a girl- and by end of freshman year was sick of her- but she threatened to kill herself if he dumped her (she was a little loco). He spent another year dating her even though he was quite sick of her by then. When he did finally dump her, fortunately she didn't kill herself- actually she seemed fine within a few weeks (she even started to hit on me... which... no... even I wasn't crazy enough to date her after that).
He was a really good guy, and it really hurt him staying with her and her being so possessive and threatening self-harm. We were all relieved when he dumped her because of how emotionally taxing on him it was.
It's a robot, it's not even an animal. It doesn't have a life to end and it's not even being destroyed, just being turned off.
That kind of sentimentality is ridiculous in adults and represents some sort of developmental delay. If I were presented with such a robot, it would be switched off sooner and probably smashed for being so annoying.
Indeed, but it is a good thing that some adults paused to consider, what if they're wrong. No harm was done by not turning the robot off. Yeah, it seems irrational on the surface, but that apparent "irrationality" is what has made human society possible. It's a hold over from our instincts to look after and protect one another.
empathy is a powerful human emotion. Humans don't feel empathy towards inanimate objects however they do for other living creatures (at least the not-scary ones.) The more similar to humans the more powerful the emotion is. A human looking robot begging for its life would likely invoke very strong feelings of empathy
It depends on the human. I really don't even like killing cockroaches... I do because they spread disease and are as such a threat to my person- but there have been so many studies showing how even spiders and insects have brains that are way more complex and deep than we used to give them credit for.
I'm actually quite ashamed of my childhood where I would deliberately squash bugs- or mess with ant nests just to see them scurry. I'm not naturally a very empathetic person- but what I've learned over my life has taught me that I probably should be- and wish I were.
The kind of sentimentality that permits that to work is outright dangerous in an adult. By the time you're past your teens that should be either ignored or annoying... but for it legitimately pull on heart strings?...
If a machine can do that consider how a human being could exploit that to get you to do all sorts of things?
Small children are very vulnerable to that sort of thing... but adults should have grown out of it.
I wouldn't want to live in a world where adults didn't have sentimentality or empathy.
Anyone who's seen Janet begging for her life in The Good Place already knows this. Even if she's not a robot.
This was exactly the first thought that came to my mind. There again, I'm sure it's hard to kill any robot with a body like that even if it is not begging for its life.
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As long as the show isn't all about feminism and female empowerment nothing has changed- you just have a talented female reprising the role that had been filled by an annoying Scottish man most recently.
The likelihood of this happening is practically zero. There will be numerous occasions where the Doctor will lament people not taking her seriously because "muh soggy knees" and every other "strong female protagonist" trope they lifted straight out of TV Tropes. Expect some "jokes" about "you wouldn't hit a woman", "I can do anything you can do but better", and all the other bullshit we've been subjected to since the 70s. I'll bet they even work a mansplaining line in at least once.
There is just no way this show won't be a mess self-indulgent feminist/progressive bullshit. It largely was, already, and having muh strong female lead will just give them every excuse to turn it up to 11.
Let's wait until they show the first episode before we write the script for them. I'm sure there will be some light-hearted jokes on the matter, for sure; and there's nothing wrong with that. They've already had jokes at the expense of both England and Scotland with their Scottish actors on-board. Nothing to offend anyone. If they turn it into a "let's bash men" show then we have a reason to complain, but so far I have no evidence that they have, so there's nothing for anyone to complain about.
A somnambulant train station... that's quite impressive. Not many towns have sleep-walking train stations.
Why is this modded up? Pretty sure you're trolling here.
But in case you really didn't get the OP:
"Feminism" used to mean "equality".
"Feminism" today tends to refer to "Third Wave Feminism", which is looking less and less interested in equality. For citations, have you not been paying attention for the last 4 or 5 years?
It's similar to how "Diversity" in the U.S.A. this decade is more and more starting to mean "Fuck White People".
Summed up, the intent is fine. The execution.....is leaving a lot to be desired.
No, feminism still means equality. Misandry means hatred of men or promotion of women above men, and I won't disagree... some people are guilty of this. Diversity still means "diversity"; if a company is 100% black, hiring a white person would still be "diversity" in that company. The words still mean the same thing; the thing that has changed the most is some people are resisting the changes now that they are a little closer to realization than they once were.
I am a white male; I am pro feminism and diversity. I am still against misandry and racism against white people - but those are two completely different things and you can't really accuse the BBC of either of those things.
I can't speak for everyone, but I imagine a large number of anti "female doctor" are at least a little sexist. Now, if the show starts up and it is bashing men; I will apologise and join in the criticism- until then, nothing wrong has been done hiring a woman.
Yes, in theory Femanism is about men and women being equal.
In practice a lot of femanists want to be more equal than men. As in equal in all aspects, except where things scew towards favoring women.
There is also a rather large group of "Femanists" that want revenge equalism. These feel that since men have had it good for so long, now women should get an advantage in everything over men.
That would be misandry rather than feminism, and I do agree that a number of self-proclaimed feminists are really misandrists; however, Doctor Who has never strayed into misandry even if it is has had feminist themes at times. Doctor Who, that I've seen, has never been more than promoting themes of equality.
Feminism and other political nonsense have also infected the show. I hate when politics infect a show. I groan every time I get slapped in the face with political correctness, feminism, etc. It destroys the show.
Feminism: the belief that women should be treated equal to men.
So you're saying if a woman is treated equal to a man on a show it destroys the show? A show is only worth watching if women are treated like crap? OK... whatever floats your boat.
So the trade war with China should help.
See... Trump does care about the environment after all.
Am I the only one wondering why a British TV series was having production work done in the US?
A lot of American film has work done in British studios. A lot of British film has work done in American studios. The industry has been internationalized for decades. Americans have been using Pinewood studios since the early days of TV and the British have been taking advantage of expertise in Hollywood- if you pay attention to closing credits; lots of Hollywood blockbusters have European centres involved. It's nothing new.
Please, point me to the part of Dr Who lore that says upon regeneration, the doctor must be male?
It's more interesting that you find the mere presence of a woman on your screen to be such a political and subversive act... How do you make the magic box go bright using the pointy-clicker?
I believe that Dr. Who is one of the few shows which CAN get away with switching the gender of the lead star at it being acceptable to canon.
Now, I do hope the doctor was chosen because she was perceived by Chibnal to be the best person for the job, and not only for being a woman. Jodie Whittaker is certainly a talented actress and I'm sure she can pull it off. As long as the show isn't all about feminism and female empowerment nothing has changed- you just have a talented female reprising the role that had been filled by an annoying Scottish man most recently.
Wrong. Apple is making more than 60% profit on anything they sell. It's just pure greed
It is a corporation's duty to get the best return on investment for it's investors. That's the way of Western Society- even in the more socialist countries of the west. I personally am not willing to pay the Apple premium, but I don't think that it is wrong them trying to get the most profit they can.
A thousand dollar phone better last six or seven years (even if you have to drop it off at a service center every couple years to have the battery replaced).
Meanwhile, you're right on that money that phones from the likes of OnePlus continue to pump out features and performance at a price tag fully half that of the major flagships.
The kind of person willing to spend $1000 for a top-tier phone is not the kind of person who would be willing to keep the same phone for 7 years. Especially since, two years after it is released there will be $250 phones that are more powerful.
Seeing how they've tried to run the franchise into the ground, especially with the Last Jedi, have to say that the longer those rights are kept out of their hands, the better.
I can easily imagine Han not shooting first being made trivial by Disney edits...
I can see them dedicating an entire spin off based around whether he shot first or not.
ah, but what is the larger turtle standing on?
A globe shaped planet.
It would be fun (if unnecessary and nerdy) if Google would let the user select any map projection they want, or even create their own.
So flat earthers could go on living their fantasy and have a high tech map to show their earthly vision.
Yes, I remember that incidence. At the time it was a worthwhile transaction no doubt... nowadays very wasteful.
10,000 BTC? That sounds more like the prize of a pizza at Mellow Mushroom these days.
Hipsters ... buying hipster coffee ... with hipster money ... using their hipster phones ... so they can sit their with their hipster Macbooks ... using their hipster apps to post pictures to hipster social media ... so that other fucking hipsters spending their hipster money in hipster coffee shops can all knowingly nod their hipster beards in what passes as a hipster gesture of approval before posting their own hipster drivel.
It's mother fucking hipsters all the way down, I tell 'ya.
Let me guess... you disliked hipsters before it was cool to dislike hipsters.
The problem with bitcoins is that they are too volatile.
I'm sure Microsoft can manage a sufficiently fast price update rate using DirectX 12.0.
That's not the problem. The problem is that there can only be half a dozen Bitcoin transactions per second IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
This means the Bitcoin transaction fee will cost more than three times what the coffee is worth.
Serious question: I wonder if anybody at Starbucks or Microsoft actually knows how Bitcoin works?
I imagine most people who buy a coffee with bitcoin using this method will do it for the novelty of it- and only a few times- so it's not likely to stress out bitcoin's infrastructure. People don't buy bitcoin so they can buy coffee... that's not bitcoin's main purpose. Bitcoin is more practical when used for large exchanges of wealth and goods.
$100 doesn't seem a lot of compensation in exchange for performing a federal crime.
Sometimes you need someone to pull the plug without mercy. When my father was dying from cancer in the hospital, I was the designated the plug puller because he knew I would make the decision without delay. My older brother wasn't that decisive. Although I got a lot of crap from my extended family, I have no regrets for following my father's last instructions.
One could say that it was empathy that made you not want your father to suffer; that you wanted him to have as much dignity as possible in his last minutes.
Either way, I'm not saying that reason and rationale are not important, merely, that sentimentality and empathy are very important and necessary. That some people found it hard to turn off a pleading robot- is a good thing. That some people thought about it first, is also a good thing. Your father, presumably, wasn't pleading for his life- if he were, I've no doubt you wouldn't pull the plug.
It's called America. I'm sorry if you live there.
There is plenty of empathy in the US. Actually I would say, on a whole, it seems a lot more empathetic than places I lived in Europe... it's just not evenly distributed amongst all people in America.
It sound cold but it's true. Think of all the relationships people can't get out of because the partner threatens to hurt themselves.
A good friend of mine in college dated a girl- and by end of freshman year was sick of her- but she threatened to kill herself if he dumped her (she was a little loco). He spent another year dating her even though he was quite sick of her by then. When he did finally dump her, fortunately she didn't kill herself- actually she seemed fine within a few weeks (she even started to hit on me... which... no... even I wasn't crazy enough to date her after that).
He was a really good guy, and it really hurt him staying with her and her being so possessive and threatening self-harm. We were all relieved when he dumped her because of how emotionally taxing on him it was.
It's a robot, it's not even an animal. It doesn't have a life to end and it's not even being destroyed, just being turned off.
That kind of sentimentality is ridiculous in adults and represents some sort of developmental delay. If I were presented with such a robot, it would be switched off sooner and probably smashed for being so annoying.
Indeed, but it is a good thing that some adults paused to consider, what if they're wrong. No harm was done by not turning the robot off. Yeah, it seems irrational on the surface, but that apparent "irrationality" is what has made human society possible. It's a hold over from our instincts to look after and protect one another.
empathy is a powerful human emotion. Humans don't feel empathy towards inanimate objects however they do for other living creatures (at least the not-scary ones.) The more similar to humans the more powerful the emotion is. A human looking robot begging for its life would likely invoke very strong feelings of empathy
It depends on the human. I really don't even like killing cockroaches... I do because they spread disease and are as such a threat to my person- but there have been so many studies showing how even spiders and insects have brains that are way more complex and deep than we used to give them credit for.
I'm actually quite ashamed of my childhood where I would deliberately squash bugs- or mess with ant nests just to see them scurry. I'm not naturally a very empathetic person- but what I've learned over my life has taught me that I probably should be- and wish I were.
The kind of sentimentality that permits that to work is outright dangerous in an adult. By the time you're past your teens that should be either ignored or annoying... but for it legitimately pull on heart strings?...
If a machine can do that consider how a human being could exploit that to get you to do all sorts of things?
Small children are very vulnerable to that sort of thing... but adults should have grown out of it.
I wouldn't want to live in a world where adults didn't have sentimentality or empathy.
Anyone who's seen Janet begging for her life in The Good Place already knows this. Even if she's not a robot.
This was exactly the first thought that came to my mind. There again, I'm sure it's hard to kill any robot with a body like that even if it is not begging for its life.