[Locke]

Personally, I don't feel the argument is sexist but it does somewhat annoy me that people seem to always concentrate on the wrong thing.

Remember when Idris was cast in Thor? Everyone was okay with that because I mean who the hell believes in the All Father and his gang of merry men these days, right? And I mean Black people are like...a minority or something, right? It's so progressive to cast black people in predominantly white roles.

Now reverse that around, could you imagine the seething hatred of the outcry if you cast a predominantly black character as a white person? Especially if that character who is usually black, that you now portray as white, was a religious figure, defunct or not?

That, above all else, is what really annoys me about the whole thing. 'The Doctor is always a white man, he should be a woman or a black man'. It'd be very different if the Doctor was always a black woman, and people finally wanted a white man.

And I know someone is going to say 'but that is different!', if you think about it, it really isn't. White folk haven't helped themselves by being largely systematically the villains of history (generalising of course) but I hate this whole attitude you see on Tumblr especially that white and male are both associated with 'bad' and white male together may as well be the devil in human skin.

Maybe I am wrong on this next part, but the Doctor has never been predominantly white and a man for social or political statements, they are just the people who have been cast. And if he becomes a woman, or a black man, it should be because the best actor won, the Doctor is a damn Timelord, his role shouldn't be taken up by the person who best fits the social justice crowd of the time of his inception. We had enough of that shit with when Torchwood decided that the only sexual orientation of the time was gay.