Return of the Silly Questions (and one more serious question)

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

1. What is the best dinosaur?

2. Who would win that nose vs chin duel?

3. How does Brian Williams/Pond fit all that stuff in his pockets? Bigger on the inside?

4. Who would be in your historical adventuring gang?

5. Help me understand: some fans think that Neffy was just having a one-night stand with Riddell at the end of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and they've said Chibnall is sexist because of it. Is this because of something specific to do with Neffertiti that I don't know about? Or is it just... well I won't say it in case I've misunderstood.

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[welshgirl15.livejournal.com]

1. What is the best dinosaur?
LONG LIVE TRICEY

2. Who would win that nose vs chin duel?
The Nose

3. How does Brian Williams/Pond fit all that stuff in his pockets? Bigger on the inside?
He must have used the same spell that he used on the tent in Goblet of Fire

4. Who would be in your historical adventuring gang?
Queen Elizabeth would be pretty kickass I think. Someone from caveman times would be cool as well.

5. Help me understand: some fans think that Neffy was just having a one-night stand with Riddell at the end of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and they've said Chibnall is sexist because of it. Is this because of something specific to do with Neffertiti that I don't know about? Or is it just... well I won't say it in case I've misunderstood.
I think some people were using it as an argument to show that Moffat was sexist. Before they realised that he didn't even write the episode...
When I watched the episode I was confused as to how she was going to get home, but since then I've found out that Nefertiti really did vanish from history. After a certain date she no longer mentioned. So clearly she stayed with Riddell! I don't really see how that's sexist at all

[loolaa.livejournal.com]

1. Stegosaurus, there is no doubt.
2. The chin, it's got a big strategic brain behind it.
3. I need to watch again as I've no idea what you're on about.
4. Boudica, Charlie Chaplin and Charles Darwin.
5. I don't get how that is sexist. That goes completely over my head like many of the 'so and so is sexist' accusations.

[oboetheres.livejournal.com]

1)Ankylosaurus

2)Draw

3)Shrinking tools?

4)Riddell, but after Neffy has educated him about how badass women can be. :P

5)As I understand it, it's not the idea that it was a one night stand that people thought was sexist, it was the idea that a strong powerful women would or should be attracted to a misogynist who treats her and women in general as inherently lesser and weak.

I personally didn't see it that way. I saw Riddell as having a bit of a change of mind in the episode, going from being a total misogynist who thinks 100% of women are helpless to still being a misogynist but being able to accept that some women (Amy and Neffy at least) were different.

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

I've just said the same thing in response to the comment below, but yeah: I understand the POV that doesn't like Neffy being with Riddell. But these posts were saying it's okay if they're in a relationship, but not if it's a one-night stand.

[oboetheres.livejournal.com]

Huh, I haven't seen any of those. Maybe the authors are a bit religious? I know a lot of conservative Christian sorts object to one night stands on principle, though I don't think I've ever heard them call them sexist.

[rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com]

I thought it was totally gross that Nefertiti went to share her life with Riddell, because he was a misogynistic jerk and really the whole premise of them being together is that women like men who treat them like shit. Him not respecting her was really kind of the only thing that drew her to him.

So, yeah, I thought that part of the episode was sexist, though I'm not remembering other episodes of Chibnall's to compare it with to see overarching patterns and make any kind of "Chibnall is sexist" evaluation, which I would still think was bullshit because the point is that this thing that Chibnall did was sexist, not who he is.

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

I understand that pairing off Neffy and Riddell could be seen as sexist. I think you also have to take into account that Neffy could slit his throat if she got sick of his shit, but yeah there's still this implication of "she wants him BECAUSE he's a dick," which is dodgy.

But the posts I've seen weren't objecting to Neffy and Riddell together. They were saying that they thought it was just a one-night thing and the Doctor was gonna pick up Neffy in the morning. And that was what they were objecting to, in fact one post said that it was okay so long as they were a proper couple now. Which confused me because... um, slut-shaming?

(BTW, I haven't linked to these posts because I don't want to send any readers to people's journals and start arguments, but I'm confident I've represented their views fully).

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

Oh and regarding this what I said here:

"I think you also have to take into account that Neffy could slit his throat if she got sick of his shit"

I like to think this is what happened once she'd filled her boots.

[rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com]

Filled her boots? Is this a euphemism I'm unfamiliar with?

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

Is it a British thing? "Fill your boots" just means "get all you want." As in "would you like to eat this entire pie? Fill your boots, it's all yours."

Although, yes, I appear to have turned it into a filthy euphemism. And the pie metaphor isn't helping is it?

[rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, that's bullshit.

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

I haven't answered my own questions!

1. Pterodactyl. It's like a bird that eats you! Wait, is a pterodactyl even a dinosaur? Does it eat people? I don't care, they're awesome.

2. I think they would probably both knock themselves out.

3. He doesn't actually have that stuff in his pockets, he's a kleptomaniac who just steals stuff as he goes along.

4. Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie and maybe Joan of Arc. Maybe.