New Doctor, Who Dis?: Jodie Whittaker Steps Out The Tardis As The New Doctor Who

For months, things have been a bit wibbly-wobbly and timey-whimey after Peter Capaldi announced that he was stepping down as the 12th Doctor on BBC’s Doctor Who. As with every regeneration, folks speculated about the new doctor. Will he be young? Will he be old? Will it finally be Idris Elba? Will the doctor remain a cis white man or can we step this diversity thing up a notch? We’ve even offered our own recommendations for the new doctor. Seeing a female, POC and/or gay doctor would be clutch. Welp, looks like we got part of what we’ve asked for. Cue that beautiful regeneration footage:

Yo, BBC has finally done it. We’ve got a female doctor y’all. Yes, you saw it. Jodie Whittaker has been cast as the 13th doctor and she is the first woman to play the role of the two-hearted, vicarious Time Lord. Unfortunately, as to be expected, folks [white cis menfolk] got all up in their feelings about a woman being cast as the new doctor. We’ve got feelings about this, and the mansplainers, too. So, you know how we do…[cue twitter fingers]

Frantz: Let me get this straight: we’ve seen The Doctor be an elderly White man in Victorian garb, a Cockney badass dude in a leather jacket, a delightfully witty and charming man-about-time in 3D glasses, and several other incarnations of this timeless and genderless character. Timeless and genderless, but always a man. Despite all of the impossible and brilliant things we’ve seen on Doctor Who, why am I not surprised that fragile masculinity is as …