Sometimes I think I'd enjoy waking up male simply to enjoy male privilege, but yes, I think you strike at something important here. Which is why I've always been more interested in seeing an actor of color in the role; it has as an important a thing to say to society, but without getting into places that I think the show isn't really capable of going.
That said, having read plenty of things written by black male authors, I'm rather skeptical that the writing for a black Doctor would really capture any of that experience. We need only to read anything written by black men in the wake of the Trayvon Martin murder to suspect that the all-white, all-British writing team of Who wouldn't really get how wearying constantly being tailed in a grocery store (among other things), and what that eventually grinds onto your soul.
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Date: 2013-08-05 04:07 am (UTC)That said, having read plenty of things written by black male authors, I'm rather skeptical that the writing for a black Doctor would really capture any of that experience. We need only to read anything written by black men in the wake of the Trayvon Martin murder to suspect that the all-white, all-British writing team of Who wouldn't really get how wearying constantly being tailed in a grocery store (among other things), and what that eventually grinds onto your soul.