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To be clear – WE DON’T THINK IT’S SEXIST OR RACIST MOFFAT CHOSE A WHITE MAN. WE THINK IT’S SEXIST OR RACIST IF, IN THE PROCESS, HE DIDN’T CONSIDER A WOMAN OR MINORITY AS VIABLE TO PLAY THE DOCTOR […] Being sexist or racist doesn’t have to, and certainly doesn’t always mean some kind of clear, open hatred based on race or sex. It can be far more passive – the simple belief in unjustified privilege for no other reason than “just because” (“just because” is synonymous, whether openly intentional or not, with “because X is generally superior as a group”) […] The most insane thing is, out of any character that has been multiply cast in the history of fiction, The Doctor is most definitely THE MOST FLEXIBLE. We literally have a character that not only canonically is granted the possibility of being transformed both in race (River Song) and sex (The Corsair), but is really a different person after each regeneration. […] For a character that not only can be, but is supposed to be re-cast as a different person each time – casting a woman or non-white individual should be just as equally considered as a white man […] And what’s most important, what regeneration teaches us – is that not only is the Doctor a little part of whom all of us are, but any of us could be the Doctor. To me, that’s what today should have been all about.