https://tree-and-leaf.dreamwidth.org/ Unthinkable Wings - Dreamwidth Studios Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:34:57 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios tree_and_leaf personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/47014/67672 https://tree-and-leaf.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://tree-and-leaf.dreamwidth.org/506084.html Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:34:57 GMT https://tree-and-leaf.dreamwidth.org/506084.html 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 https://tree-and-leaf.dreamwidth.org/506084.html doctor who amy public 4