bookthief:gyzym:

• okay so here’s the thing right about amy pond
• when amy pond was a child her parents were murdered by a creature living in her house that she didn’t know about
• that accessed her house by going through a hole in the fabric of the universe that she also didn’t know about
• which altered her thoughts (to the point that she was later able to reconstruct the universe), which she also didn’t know about
• her life was heavily influenced at a young age by a visit from an alien man in a blue box who told her he would be be right back
• her belief in this man caused people to believe she was crazy
• no really; that’s canon, the twelve years she spent being told she was crazy
• twelve years she also spent, again unknowingly, being childhood best friends with her part-time-lord daughter
• who was born after a pregnancy that amy also did not fucking know about
• after months and months during which amy’s brain was disconnected from her body, sent off on adventures, and again NOT TOLD that this was happening
• (not to mention how this child was immediately separated from amy after her birth, again, without amy’s knowledge)
• and now it turns out that while amy was being unknowingly held hostage during her unknown pregnancy, amy’s body was—in some unknown way—rendered incapable of bearing children
• so say what you want, have whatever opinions you want about whether or not the ~gave rory up since she could not provide what she wanted~ thing was sexist
• seriously; knock yourself out, i don’t care either way
• this is still a show in which the lead female character’s physical and mental wellbeing is CONSTANTLY and CANONICALLY either out of her control or called into question
• this is still a show on which the lead female character’s ability to make her own choices about her physical and mental wellbeing is CONSTANTLY and CANONICALLY denied to her
• and you can call that whatever you want
• you really can
• but when you cut it in half and peer inside?
• it looks a whole fucking lot like sexism. 

my emphasis added because this.

chipsandcustard:

Expectations:

Reality:

Preaching to the choir.

doctorwho:

The Daily Beast: How would you stack up Amy Pond against her most recent predecessors, i.e., Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, and Donna Noble? Did you set out to make her a reaction to any of the Doctor’s most recent companions?

Steven Moffat: I don’t think you can, because she’s a completely different person. With the Doctor, you might have a certain amount of that, but Amy Pond has never even met those other girls, so why would she be a response to them?…There are always going to be certain commonalities to the people who choose to go through the blue doors, but I think Amy is…in certain respects, one of the trickier ones. Because of her very odd introduction to the Doctor, it took her a long time to trust him. She likes a good time…I keep saying, “bad girl in the TARDIS.” And now, you know who her daughter is and they’re both just bad girls.

She’s not a bad girl in the TARDIS, she’s an undeveloped character who miraculously saves the day with very little effort every episode. Jesus, Moffat. Calm yourself.

Amy: Look at you pair.  It’s always you and her, isn’t it, long after the rest of us have gone? The boy and his box off to see the universe.
The Doctor: Well you say it as if it’s a bad thing… but honestly, it’s the best thing there is.