Doctor Who, Season Nine

[Esquilax]

Nup, confirmed by another study.

I wasn't clear with my intent. I took the study at face value. What I was really getting after was the fact that 'the study' was conducted in the first place. This is a clear sign that there's a professional offense taker at work. Fucking ridiculous.

I dunno, I see it more as a missed opportunity. There's an interesting conversation to be had about certain sexist implications and plotlines in Moffat's work on the show, but that study wasn't interested in having it, in favor of a vaguely correlated quantitative thing. When I saw that the Bechdel Test was the first thing they looked for I just stopped taking the whole thing seriously; it's a good thought experiment, but the Bechdel Test is not a reliable indicator of sexism. It's not even an indicator of sexism at all, as far as I'm concerned.