My blood is boiling that Tennant wouldn't wear Whittaker's clothes because "it'd be transphobic and the right wing would make fun of drag" but a drag performer can perform in drag as an over the top villain (possibly the Master apparently, at least people are theorizing???? Which I hate on so many levels) and that's A-OK to RTD and his followers
I think Tennant would have worn it, he’s worn more feminine outfits, I think when he read how the regen was going to go he probably didn’t even think about it as being an issue or what it symbolised.
RTD however, it was an active decision by him and makes less than no sense with everything we’ve seen since then that he’s put out. But I think he comes from a privileged position where he thinks he knows what’s right and anyone who disagrees is just a complainer sadly.
RTD stans have always had a double standard so I’m not at all surprised we are seeing that more and more now as more episodes come out that could be just as heavily critiqued as anything from the Chibnall era if not more and it just doesn’t happen. Or when someone does bring it up it gets swept under the rug.
Regarding Jinkx Monsoon's character (apparently called "The Maestro", which imo is so on the nose that I don't think she'll be the Master but a different character)...
I fully expect the character to be campy and over-the-top, but I'm wondering if she eventually becomes little more than a caricature of a villain, with no subtlety or depth.
Oh come on. Be sad about your favorite era being over, be sad about the costume (let's be real, they were never gonna, the gap between filming ends of the scene alone...), but don't make it into a social justice issue while fundamentally misunderstanding drag.
Yes. Having a major drag star vs having tabloid headlines linger over a gap year about a cis straight guy being mocked for being perceived as in drag are two extremely different situations. And having a Broadway star drag icon play a campy villain would in fact be a superb representation of drag. What are y'all even on about?