Maybe I'm still asleep?

[mrv3000]

There's been mounds of Crazy in DW fandom ever since EoT aired. But this is...more Crazy. :D

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/42777004.html

These are quite possibly the only 150 people in all of the UK who didn't watch "The Christmas Invasion." HEH.

In other news, I fell asleep at 6 p.m. watching TV and just woke up. *stares at self*

ETA: Awwww! The rude and not ginger clip. Bless.

Comments

[larissa-j.livejournal.com]

These are quite possibly the only 150 people in all of the UK who didn't watch "The Christmas Invasion." HEH.

*snort* Or they've been watching that whacky version of DW that all the sane people in the fandom seem to miss but that the crazies swear is tru!canon.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I knew there had to be another show they were airing! But only a few people get it - the BBC likes to mess with people.

[starlightmoonla.livejournal.com]

O_o I just... I'll never understand this ginger issue.

These are quite possibly the only 150 people in all of the UK who didn't watch "The Christmas Invasion." HEH.

That and they managed to forget that Donna is ginger. I can understand not knowing about the new companion, even with the trailer and the pictures that have been released in the past, but Donna??

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's just...The Crazy.

[selenityshiroi.livejournal.com]

*shakes head*

I guess some people are a little trigger happy when the term ginger comes up.

There are so many derogatory ginger jokes floating around the UK that I guess they are just overly defensive and assumed it was another slight.

At least, that's me giving them the benefit of the doubt. I'd rather join in the shouts of 'WTF? Are they insane? Do they not know basic inflections?'

Out of that entire section with the Eleventh Doctor, that is the only line that made me smile.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

You know, this show seems to push a lot of triggers for some reason. *boggles at the silly time travel kids' show*

And I guess being a redhead doesn't have the same connotations over here. Things might be different nowadays, but when I grew up, people who were redheads were a non issue.

[elismor.livejournal.com]

Do we think that the problem of derrogatory ginger jokes dates back to the saxon invasion? In Scotland, it's still considered bad luck for someone fair or ginger to be the first through your threshold in the new year (because of the Saxons). I always thought of that as just tradition--it never even occured to me that anti-redhead sentiment might still be pervasive in the whole cutlture...

Also? Those people are whack-a-doo.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I had no idea about any of that. Weirdness. Of course, we have plenty weird of our own over here, but...weird.

[elismor.livejournal.com]

Well, it makes sense in that the natives were dark haired and the invaders were fair or ginger--so it was an easy way to see who the bad guy was or who was a descendant of the bad guys.

I don't know what the gist of all the anti-ginger jokes are over there, but it would also make sense to me that, were this the root, they would tend to paint redheads as dumb and brutish. I'm totally guessing on that one, though.

In an aside--given the stereotypes of redheads as fiery and unpredictable, can you even imagine what the last three years would have been like had Ten actually been ginger? OMG. Thank Rassilon for small favors.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I guess that does make sense.

And ha!

[olga-keepout.livejournal.com]

What. It's like we weren't watching the same show!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

That's a good possibility. XD

[kitsune17.livejournal.com]

I saw that last night and I lol'd.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it's possible to have a less valid complaint. XD

[16s16.livejournal.com]

LOL! If the show was anti-ginger, Donna wouldn't have been a companion. I wonder if they watch the same show as us?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Apparently not. XD

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Wow. Victim politics at its absolute silliest.

And I notice it specifically said people were complaining that their children were being slighted. Dollars to donuts the kids didn't care, or if they did, it's because the parents have taught them to be hypersensitive. Otherwise... I can't think of a kid who wouldn't be smart enough to take "still not ginger" as a cry of woe, even if they hadn't seen TCI!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Seems like they're teaching their kids to be victims.

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

So there are Brits who don't have a clue about what goes on in Doctor Who then. All the "sane" people know he wants to be ginger...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It's hard to imagine, isn't it?

[janetmaca.livejournal.com]

Clearly I need more commenters on my flist.. or more Who fans. *flails*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

More non crazy Who fans are always good!

[janetmaca.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? Have you met Who fans? I think we're the craziest, most sadistic bunch of people united over a fandom since... well, ever, really.

Still, the whole thing amuses me.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

XD XD There are a few non crazy ones out there. Not many, but a few.

[janetmaca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you and goldy_dollar and fairyfloss_love are all on my flist. The only one I'm missing is _thirty2flavors.

[erateini.livejournal.com]

*Rolls eyes*
If you're going to complain about something you should at least know what it's about!
All I thought when he said that was "Yeah! Why can't I be ginger!?"

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I think some people always need something to bitch about.

[rattus-aerius.livejournal.com]

I'm still laughing about that. I guess they just heard "ginger" and assumed it was an insult. ;)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Apparently. :D

[skippity-doo.livejournal.com]

People are twats. You're quite right - the parents who saw this obviously never watched TCI and jumped to conclusions. But then, people will whinge about anything. It was such a Daily Mail story, I wanted to barf.

I am ginger, hear me ROAR. (The gingers shall inherit the earth... by force if necessary... etc.)

p.s. have you ever watched the interview with Catherine Tate and DT from Jonathon Ross? It aired around the time of Journey's End and Catherine told a story all about her ginger cat- "the discrimination of my people goes down to the animal world!"

p.p.s. Barley is also ginger, and disapproves of whingey old bags with nowt better to do than complain to the BBC.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

"the discrimination of my people goes down to the animal world!"

Like the classism over there, ginger bias is foreign to me. It's...another hair color.

[okelay.livejournal.com]

lol, I saw this and went "wtf?!" besides, gingers are awesome.look at donna

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

Right, because the Doctor banging on about desperately wanting to be ginger and then going on to have not one but now TWO ginger companions is evidence of an anti-ginger bias.

Tomorrow, the sun rises in the west, Pope discovered to be Jewish.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

XD