*eyeroll*

[rusty_halo]

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Um, people? Disliking a character because she’s ugly* is just as dumb and misogynist as disliking a character because she’s “blonde and curvaceous.” Can we please try judging female characters based on their personalities and not on their looks?

"Ugly" women can only be villains? Only "pretty" women are allowed to fall in love? What? I want to smack this girl with the "internalized misogyny" chapter of an "Intro to Gender and Sexuality" textbook.

There are plenty of good reasons to be annoyed by River Song: she's rude, smug, boring, defined almost entirely by her relationship with the Doctor, shoved into the story out of nowhere, and treated with far more importance than she's earned. The fact that she doesn't look like a Barbie doll is not one of them.

That said, I think half the reason I dislike Jack Harkness is that I can't stand looking at that hideous buttchin of his all the time. :P

* Link goes to the doctorwho LJ comm. It's about River Song; you have to join to read it.

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