From the Archives .....

Today's post is a possible reason for why, as Aggy suggests, girls don't watch 'Doctor Who'. Back in Feb 1992, Michael Czeiszperger made a thread entitled 'Dr. Who is sexually harassing to women??'
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I would like to ask female fans of DW to express their feelings about how women are portrayed on the show. The problem is I frequently put up pictures from Doctor Who Magazine in my office, and the female office manager has asked me to remove them on the grounds the show is degrading to women. We discussed it at length, and I agreed to remove pictures of Peri from the walls, but refused to remove pictures of Ace or Lela on the grounds they were positive portrayals of women.
Her basic problem with the pictures is that Lela's costume is too small, Peri shows too much cleavage, and Romana II appears to be "too subservient". She said the pictures were insulting to all women because they objectify women as sexual objects. While I quickly conceded to the character of Peri, I tried to explain the reasons I admire the characters of Lela and Romana. Unforunately, when I talked about the characters intelligence, courage, and strength of character, she said they were invalid role models for young women because they were "simply caricatures of men". She also complained that :
1. The doctor always seemed to be "in control" and the women simply accessories.
2. The doctor is always fully clothed and the women frequently less clothed.
3. The doctor is always older and wiser and the women always younger and inexperienced.
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So could Aggy be correct in theorizing that Girls/Women don't watch 'Doctor Who' with the reason being it portrays them in a bad light??
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Daniel