tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-15:67672 A little orthodox and icony. tree_and_leaf 2010-12-18T19:35:24Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-15:67672:506084 2010-12-18T19:34:57Z 2010-12-18T19:35:24Z public 4 I hope I'm not the only person who thinks that <a href="http://aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2010/12/pleasures-of-reading-viewing-and_18.html"><i>sexually voracious</i></a> is a ridiculous way to describe Amy.<br /><br />... I wasn't wild about the scene where she jumped on the Doctor (actually, it hit my embarrassment squick), but one impulsive decision in the aftermath of surviving Scary Things doesn't make you Messalina. Neither, come to that, does being a kissogram, though again, I don't think it's an ideal career path. But Amy has agency, and the length of her skirts doesn't change that.*<br /><br />In conclusion: can we please stop playing the slut-shaming card?<br /><br /><br />* I suppose, since it was a different time, we needn't bring the length skirt of Liz Shaw, all round brilliant scientist, into it....<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=tree_and_leaf&ditemid=506084" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments