Hasn't he? Do we know the physiology of a Gallifrean well enough to establish what sex the Doctor is? The fact that, through some fluke of parallel evolution, the Doctor appears passably human in most incarnations beggars the mind. To require though, that an alien- despite the rough resemblance to a human externally- continues to resemble a human in other ways, well... it's rather anthropomorphic.
We can grant, at least, that the Doctor has an awareness and understanding of human genders- an important requisite for any Time Lord that wants to blend in. Note that Romana represented as a different human gender and carried herself as such.
With these two examples, we can determine that certain gross physical characteristics persist across regenerations. For example, in the case of Romana, there are a pair of organs similar to human mammiaries that adorn "her" chest. The Doctor lacks this feature, and it is then reasonable to assume that for Gallifreans, there is at least two body types that serve similar social roles to gender.
Now I'm going to really have to formulate this and build my own post on the topic.
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Date: 2006-09-22 12:44 pm (UTC)We can grant, at least, that the Doctor has an awareness and understanding of human genders- an important requisite for any Time Lord that wants to blend in. Note that Romana represented as a different human gender and carried herself as such.
With these two examples, we can determine that certain gross physical characteristics persist across regenerations. For example, in the case of Romana, there are a pair of organs similar to human mammiaries that adorn "her" chest. The Doctor lacks this feature, and it is then reasonable to assume that for Gallifreans, there is at least two body types that serve similar social roles to gender.
Now I'm going to really have to formulate this and build my own post on the topic.