he's hardly the first teenaged boy in the history of the world to say breathtakingly dumbass things about girls/women

*nods* And in this case, the context seems to be that he's jealous that these newcomers, Tegan and Nyssa, are displacing him from the center of the Doctor's attention.

I think DW fandom's by far the worst about this of any fandom I've ever been in

I'm at the point where I mostly stay away from discussion in DW, except when it's people I know, because the level of unjustified viciousness can be so toxic.