Chromosomally speaking I possess both. I am however an X generationally speaking, and am at a loss to understand how possession of a Y turns you into an idiot, at least according to TV.
Allow me to explain. There has been a trend developing as our younger, happy-go-lucky Generation Y-ers go about their business and look for new entertaining shiny things with which to distract and amuse. Maybe that should be a-muse (as in without thought)?
Take the new and improved (yes, I’m aware it can’t be both) working of Dr. Who. The Doctor is so young that he makes Dr. Dorian (Scrubs) look like a walnut. He’s been getting younger during this new run as well (Ecclestone ’64, Tennant ’71, Smith ’82). What is it about older people? Are we no longer marketable? Are we not buying and therefore should not be sold too? Perhaps it’s because anyone over the age of thirty-five becomes so twisted and cynical that it’s impossible for them to be lied to anymore. That can’t be true either, I know some of them and their heads are well and truly in the sand.
Back to the XX. Have you also noticed that with few exceptions, the one notable being Bernard Cribbins, all the companions have been strong independent-minded women? Not only that but they always seem to have a wet, stupid boyfriend in tow.
I don’t get it. Why are girls being told that all men are stupid (unless they’re a handsome Time-Lord who, I hasten to add, is not human)? Why are we constantly portrayed in television-land as retarded man-children?
This is no country for old men…
