Very sneaky, DWM...

Who, since the reboot, has been the definitive 'progressive' British series, imo.

Diversity is great, and representing minorities and women is important to society - not for us as white people but it's something that's needed. There are plenty of black/asian/latino/LGBT people that should have role models in TV. We get plenty. Maybe it takes you out of it, maybe you lose the sense of realism, but at the same time you're watching a show about a 1000+ year old man who goes around in a phone box. If you can watch that and think "this is believable", you should be able to see a gay/transgender/black/female/asian character and think nothing of it. It's just how TV works nowadays.

I mean just think of Captain Jack, an outwardly gay/bisexual character in a primetime TV series back in 2005, when gay jokes were still super duper relevant. I was 13 when it aired, and I really think Doctor Who helped me go from "gay is weird" to "gay is fine/normal/fun".

Doctor Who is still a heavily straight, white show. There are quotas that the BBC need to fill to make people happy but as long as those characters aren't stereotypically written and are portrayed realistically, it really shouldn't bother you or anybody.

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