David Tennant

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I’m gutted, I’m such a huge fan of his. I’ve been hugely looking forward to the second series of Good Omens.

And now this. When challenged on it, apparently he said “I’m OK, TERFs can’t climbs stairs”.

How very disappointing.

Wasn’t this in one of Eddie Izzard’s stand up routines?

Back when Eddie was funny?

It's OK. You can separate David Tennant the very good actor from David Tennant the total numpty on the subject of sex and gender.

Yep.

5:23 onwards (ish)

Luckily I never watched a single Eddie Izzard routine, so wasn’t bothered when he came out as an absolute twerp.

Read the room David.

Daleks are genetically modified.

Just saying.

I'm worried about the generation of young people who will be unable to manage for themselves whilst living with disabilities as side effects from tampering with hormones and genital surgeries and breast amputations.

David is wearing a special magic T-shirt promoting these surgeries.

David is a disgrace.

I’d say he’s read the room and is on the side of, what will be, his forthcoming audience demographic ie. young girls with short hair wearing quizzical expressions, bow ties and braces and middle-aged, male computer-programmers sitting at home in their Dr Who slippers and silky camisole tops. A certain ex-newsreader named after a country bordering Pakistan, will be besides themselves as Dr Who and the Daleks apparently elicited their first big O after they had their surgery.

And life at home would be far too problematic if he didn’t nail his colours to the mast.

It's the TRAs screaming EXTERMINATE at women after all.

The BBC? Bloody hell, that's clutching at straws. He's an actor, he goes where the work is. He's just about to do Macbeth...you going to have a go at The Donmar too?

I am afraid David is missing the point. There are fascinating parallels between Doctor who lore and what is going on.

Davros, the creator of the Daleks, was a fanatic and crippled medical genius who believed genetic experimentation could produce a new superior form of life one focused on violence and domination. Notice that Davros is also a male obsessed with creating life, he wants to give birth, he aims to eliminate the pesky women from reproduction, and also compassion, nuturing, and love. Daleks have no mother only the worst father you can imagine. His own creations, exterminate him, because they learned only hate from him and cannot tolerate dissent, but continue in a never ending cycle of violence.

Davros: Today, the Kaled race has ended, consumed in a fire of war, but, from its ashes will rise a new race. The supreme creature. The ultimate procreator of the universe: THE DALEKS! The action you take today is the beginning of a journey that will take the Daleks to their destiny of universal and absolute supremacy.

Also I note that it is important that Daleks are NON-BINARY and asexual.

Their pronouns are IT.

The thing is the Daleks always lose. The key to their defeat is their lack of humanity, love of violence and threats, inability to accept to dissent, or imagine things differently and need to enforce uniformity on the world.

Same reason that our side will win the Gender Wars.

These people are practically owned by these large corporations. Contracts, reputation. Your career rests on things like that, is it still the BBC he's with? The ones who protected Saville?

His latest production is with Prime. So is he suddenly owned by them? Broadchurch was on ITV. When did he stop being owned by them.

The simple fact is that, like all actors, he is self-employed and not owned by anyone who happens to buy a production that he is cast in.

Wearing a shirt telling people to leave trans children alone is not evidence that the wearer promotes surgeries.

Daleks are fictional characters invented in 1963, 8 years before Tennant was born.

Just saying.

Why are you just saying that?

I was a big fan of his. Not a good look at all...

What is the relevance of his being Scottish? We wouldn't be being racist, would we?

In response to the message quoted.

Absolutely not. Most Dr Whos have played the role in their native accent. Paul McCann's Liverpool, Christopher Eccleston's Salford and Peter Capaldi's Glasgow stand out in my mind. My point was that DT added an otiose layer of make-believe by performing in RP.

Actor plays role as directed. Shock horror.

Just out of curiosity how does that work? Is his partner a woman who wants to be a man and in that case is your son gay? I just don’t get it.

Eddie didn't invent the daleks and stairs joke. It was common among school children not too long after the daleks first appeared.

Tennant is my favourite Dr

Actor plays role as directed. Shock horror are you saying he was told to do it in an English accent?

Yeah except I imagine DT and his wife saying “yes dear, that’ll be a good angle and certainly get you on in the business, I’ll phone my friends at the BBC and see if they can’t find you a part on Casualty…” Attention seeking twats.

Daleks have been able to fly since the Sylvester McCoy days (also a Scot).

Doesn’t contribute anything, just my nerd-dar going off.

I’m sorry.