The 'sex obsessed' portion of fandom hit me in the face like a shovel when Doctor Who returned to screens a few years ago, and it got worse and worse when David Tennant took the role. To his credit, he seems to have taken what's been being done with his likeness in fanfics in stride, but I can't imagine what he really thinks of it. I know lots of fans, predominantly women, who go to... ahem... great lengths (and depths) in their fics about Doctor #10 and Rose, Martha, Sally Sparrow, or whomever.
It's kinda killed fandom for me, to an extent. Because I never thought of Doctor Who as "sexy". Ever. Yeah, I crushed on Nicola Bryant when I was a teenager, but it was a boyish crush, not a fetishization. That's what I think get me about it.
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Date: 2010-02-01 02:34 am (UTC)It's kinda killed fandom for me, to an extent. Because I never thought of Doctor Who as "sexy". Ever. Yeah, I crushed on Nicola Bryant when I was a teenager, but it was a boyish crush, not a fetishization. That's what I think get me about it.