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A few words on Donna Noble
I have a friend, who is a man, who hates Donna Noble, and it upsets me every time we talk about it.
Let me tell you why.
Donna Noble is all the girls and women who feel like they’re too loud, and take up too much room. They are all the girls and women who have opinions; who want to be heard, but nobody really wants to listen.
But they keep trying anyways. They keep being loud, and they keep taking up room because they don’t know how not to.
They’re not Disney Princesses.
They’re not the love interest.
They want to be the hero of their own story, but they don’t feel like they matter enough to make it happen, because in all the stories they’ve seen, they’re the sassy, goofy, too-loud friend.
Donna was for us girls who want the world, but the world’s not so interested in us.
The idea that we matter, that we’re important, when everyone has told us for forever that we’re not, was huge for me.
So my friend saying he didn’t like Donna, kind of felt like he was saying he didn’t like me.