Twelve men played Doctor Who before a woman – I think young boys will cope, Nick Fletcher

The Conservative MP was met with mockery after seeming to link the trend of prominent female casting in ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Star Wars’ to criminal behaviour in young men. While there’s no denying boys need positive role models, it’s an argument that fundamentally misdiagnoses the nation’s masculinity crisis, writes Louis Chilton