Doctor Who: is she driving men to crime?

Tory MP says vogue for ‘gender-flipping’ characters has helped create crisis in masculinity

Jodie Whittaker
Jodie Whittaker, the first female Doctor
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Pop culture has long triggered moral panics of varying levels of absurdity, said Ed Power in The Daily Telegraph. But Nick Fletcher, the Conservative MP for Don Valley in South Yorkshire, took things to new heights last week, when he argued that the vogue for “gender-flipping” beloved TV and film characters – having Doctor Who played by Jodie Whittaker, for instance – had helped to create a crisis in masculinity.

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