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That awkward moment where you’re finally uncomfortable and skeeved enough to talk about something and you’re fairly certain it’s going to go quite badly as these things tend to do.
 
But, well. Here’s hoping anyway.

This is a post about River Song and why what Moffat is writing with her makes my skin crawl. I don’t hate her. I also don’t dislike her. Rather, I’m insulted by the way she is presented and written. I know that disliking her is hardly an unpopular opinion but those that do like and love her have, in the past, kept me from saying anything. Not directly, no, and I like to hope that fans will understand criticisms and not sweep them away, which I too often see. A post that went around my dash several weeks ago claimed she was flawless and that there were no objective reasons to dislike her save personal preference. Again, I felt rather upset by this because of how upsetting her character is for me. But now that my dash is pretty much nothing but the now famous speech, I feel the need to say something.

And for more disclaimers, these are all my own opinions and I just feel the need to put them out there now. I’ve never liked how she’s written. I feel she’s one of the best examples of why I’m so wary of letting Moffat ever write a woman. And I guess I’m finally putting it into words despite, well, everyone scaring me – including the extreme haters. But here it goes.

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