14 May

Russell Davies, producer of Doctor Who, chose a black, gay doctor this season, and made one of the arch-villains a prominent US drag queen. Which of course set off the woke/anti-woke team sports online. That’s the point. It’s just another move in the same team sports. There’s of course nothing wrong with being black, gay or a drag queen. But it’s tedious and destructive of peoples’ lives to always make a team sport out of it. I also think JK Rowling is right here again, that men pretending to be women is not a victory for women. Pantomime dames, as Germaine Greer presciently called them. Misogyny’s ultimate victory is to have men now policing the very definition of a woman.