dr who and the politically correct script writers

Oh the weeping angels! Terrifying!

maggiemaybe I don’t think anyone is commenting here on a racial mix ( Dr Who gang) are they though?Rather that the plots are a bit heavy on the PC side.
You would expect this after all, in a city like Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, London.

Nobody on this thread has said anything like ‘being proud that we don’t have to tolerate undesirables’ so that proves to me mcem that there is a lot going on inside your own head and possible prejudices.
It doesn’t make anyone ‘narrow minded’ if they happen to live in a village where all seem to be white British, and don’t know anyone who is openly gay or trans, after all, would you condemn French villagers who lived in villages full of white French people......doesn’t make sense does it?! Or any other country come to that.
People can appreciate ‘the wider world’ and there can be few who rarely leave their village and don’t travel into towns and cities, or have lived there in the past.
I don’t prefer Dr Who because she is a woman (that would be sexist!) but because she seems a good character.

The current companions of Dr Who were gathered up in Sheffield, where two of the four recent episodes have been set. I can’t see that racial mix, or the fact that one of the four travellers might not be straight, raising many eyebrows there, thank goodness.

I still catch the odd episode of Dr Who, but surely its main target is the young (and generally more open-minded) teenage audience, and the scripts reflect this. Okay, so it’s not Shakespeare, but it can be a lot of fun, and I’m enjoying JW’s take on it. Some of the quick asides (I call people dude now!) and cultural references are very funny.

I doubt they’ll ever again come up with anything as scary as the Weeping Angels, though!

I think the posts from PECS and maw reinforce my opinion that problems are not always a result of what goes on around us but what goes on inside our heads!
We can be outward-looking and appreciate the wider world or narrow-minded and be proud that we don't have to tolerate 'undesirables'!!
As someone who has never been a Doc Who fan I find I 'm being drawn in because there's more to it than daleks and sonic screwdrivers.
Is it because the doctor is a woman?
Don't know!

How do you know there are no trans people in your villages please?
Do they wear badges for identification purposes?

Who are the PC mob please? Why would anybody be ecstatic because a character on a TV programme is bisexual?

Perhaps there is more irony on this thread than we realise.

I do hope so Nelliemoser.

It has occurred to me that the over bearing political correctness might be an ironic statement.

Ah well, N Bucks lives and learns.
Some 30 years ago “eyebrows” were being raised at the arrival of our village’s first black African family.
He was a hospital consultant. She an Accountant. Their baby son was christened at the village church and the “eyebrows” had to be readjusted when it transpired that hs godmother was a Ugandan princess.
Thank God nobody around here is like that any more.

I imagine that’s the village, not Guildford Maw. Some villages are very exclusive.

Interesting that PECS lives in a village/small town near Guildford described as a multicultural university city while GabriellaG also lives in a village a few miles from Guildford , an exclusive backwater with no racial mx no inhabitants other than middle class white, and lacking Chinese, Induan or even fish and chip takeaways!
Strange.....

tidyskatemum I had a badge in the 70s that said "Gay whales against racism" Us lefties can laugh at ourselves!

I too live a few miles from Guildford which is of course a multicultural University town. Guildford, and our area of Waverley voted Remain despite having Jeremy Hunt as an MP There is quite an active political Compass group here. www.compassonline.org.uk
which I only mention to demonstrate that even in the heart of the Surrey hills there are those who may not be blue through and through!

The small town, with which our village has blended, whilst not exactly a reflection of the wider world, has an increasing number of families from a variety of backgrounds. Rather than all being domestic cleaners or care workers are often ex-London young professionals or working at Surrey Uni and the big research park, at the Royal Surrey hospital or for Guildford Diocese. Our rail link into London is good! It is not Royston Vesey here!

To get back on track on the Dr Who theme - apparently the PC mob are ecstatic because Yas, the Asian female police offier (tick!) might be bisexual. Sigh!

Well, Jodie Whittaker and the PC plots of the OP I think. ?

Dr Who?
Who Dr Who? ?

mcem
Actually, it's a very nice, safe, honest area where you can hear a pin drop after 11pm. No fights, no litter, no drunken behaviour. All good.

We seem to have veered a long way off Dr Who

No Chinese or fish and chips here either....probably as well, for my waistline!

All this ‘ sounds like a nightmare narrow community ‘ stuff is frankly ridiculous, ( aimed at anyone who lives in a village I expect.)
Coming from Devon we lived in a wonderful community, it didn’t have other races or trans people but was a great caring place wherere we all looked out for one another.
Living in a different place now, a large village, still no other races or trans people, a buzzing place with tons of clubs and activities.Anyone from different cultures who came to live here would be made welcome, it’s a friendly place, but villages, even large ones tend not to attract immigrants, they go to towns and cities, it’s as simple as that.

No takeaways where I live, no fish n chip shops (which I miss) mostly skinny rich (not me) with skinny good looking kids who go to private schools and well orf retirees.

Don’t you have Indian or Chinese takeaways? In our little rural market town in Norfolk there are a few black people, Chinese (including from the takeaway) some Americans who like being out of the way, and quite a few Europeans. The family in the fish and chips shop are Polish. They’ve all integrated and the kids talk with Norfolk accents so it can be difficult to tell if they’re an ethnic minority or not! How do you tell if someone is mixed race? When does a person become British? How mixed do you have to be before you don’t count in the ethnic statistics anymore? And yes, we do have gay couples and cross dressers too. Perhaps the depth of Norfolk is more cosmopolitan than we think.

Moslems though stay in Norwich, presumably as there’s no mosque.

I live in a suburb which was predominantly white when I moved here almost 50 years ago. We now have a much more diverse population, including people of Pakistani heritage, a growing number of black African asylum seekers and any number of children in our local schools who have dual or mixed heritage.
We have a young woman who is transitioning to male working in the local shop. Our M&S (2 miles away) has a young male assistant who is in the process of transitioning to female. We have gay and lesbian people in our community. I'm just back from John Lewis (10 miles away) where I was served by a stunningly beautiful 6' 2" transgender woman.

I used to live in a trendy Manchester suburb and often visit friends there. It doesn't sound remotely like the village outside Guildford, any more than my own area does , for which Im thankful.

Oh I am so glad that I live in a vibrant university city where we welcome young people of all shades and presumably all sexual orientations!
Royston Vasey by Guildford sounds like a nightmare narrow little community!