June 30, 2012

Dayum.

Overly Devoted Archivist Uncategorized doctor who, I feel like the words 'check your privilege' should be in here somewhere, I hope I've checked mine, martha jones 0 Comments

sweetsnbrits:

You’d think Martha Jones was THE most important character in Doctor Who with the way people have been reacting to my dislike of her.

This is my reaction to mean re-bloggers:

First I’m all

Then I realize this is the internet and then I’m all

To many people, she is the most important character in Doctor Who.

Because she’s the only female Black companion- and likely to remain the only female Black companion for a good few years. Because she did everything right, saved the Doctor and the world several times-

-and yet her Tumblr tag, on any given day, contains far more hate than anyone else’s. (I checked. Nothing negative at all for the first seven pages of Rose’s tag. Same with Donna, Rory, and Jack. Amy goes for about five. Mickey has hate on his second page*.)

If people react so badly to a black woman on television, what does that say about racism in the ‘real world’? Read this article– it does a better job of explaining it than I can.

Martha is important- hugely important. And the way people reacted to her and continue to react to her is important too.

*Now, what do Martha and Mickey have in common?