Walter the worm (walter the worm) is a sentient worm, a side character present in the mr men and little miss series of books, these little twenty page pamphlet weird things that you probably read when you were young. My favorite was mr tickle but I don’t remember walter the worm at all. His impact on his own series is ultimately minimal, despite the various mr men and little miss that exist. Of course, mr men and little miss as a series is the ultimate form of gender essentialism in a piece of media, systematically reducing people down to singular traits by which they are identifiable. Walter the Worm is related to a series of books inherently based upon simple stereotypes, stereotypes which are communicated to children. The books by their pedestrian nature and inability to teach children the important concept of nuance are a part of the cultural stagnancy at the heart of the world today. As such, walter the worm (walter the worm) is a problematic character in today’s culture. 

With the inherent rise of politicism at the center of the culture war existing today in america, the concept of the book ban is a common one. The restricting of information by a higher authority is a controversial concept, mostly due to it being immoral, but also because some idiots like doing it. Common Book bans include ones involving LGBT topics, positive depictions of diversity, and books that are sexual in nature. Also captain underpants is on the side of the woke liberals, being one of the most banned depictions of a character in children’s literature . you know who’s ass hasn’t been banned one time by the conservative elite? Walter the goddamn worm 

In times of trouble and political upheaval, where is walter the worm to help us? He remains a figure of empty promises, a barely remembered icon of a series that remains essentialist in it’s views of not only gender but other political matters such as socioeconomic status. Like listen to these books. What (beyond gender) is the feasible difference between mr happy and little miss sunshine? Little miss sunshine for the record is not a literal sun in any sense, and thus her name is metaphorical for her happy mood. There is nothing interesting or unique about little miss sunshine other than her gender. Any actual personality traits of these figures are relegated to men , and reductive depictions of men at that. Look at mr strong, mr bump, mr grumpy. The mr men books are teaching a message of toxic masculinity and gender norms to children that would be perfectly well served without them. Listen to this little miss stuff. Little miss princess . little miss christmas. These aren’t even emotions at this point, just pretty little boxes that can be ticked off to appease women and keep them contained in their patriarchal boxes. Not true representation of femininity but an half-hearted idea of it. Where is Mx undefinable ? adam hargreaves . come on. Tell me. Where is mx ambiguous? You are but a pawn of the DEI haters that ruin america.  but who are the haters of diversity? Who despises equity and inclusion more than any other? 

the idea of a doctor who crossover with a series like this in today’s era of MCU style interconnectivity seems inevitable . the daleks, (daleks) created by terry nation in 1963, were the central impetus for dr who’s success as a program. These analogies for nazism are elon musk’s best buddies , and have been giving dr woke a hard time since 1963. Dr who is implicitly positioned against racism by the text of their work, since the very beginning. Opposing the daleks however is dr who’s first woke act. Witness dr who’s behavior in the first doctor who story, an unearthly child. The man immediately resorts to insulting native americans and arabs, and nearly bludgeons someone to death with a rock. Before he meets the daleks (daleks) he endangers two school teachers (educators) and a small child by sabotaging a fluid link on his own vehicle and forcing them out into the wilderness for his own bemusement. It is the daleks which radicalize dr who into performing as a hero for the first time, even if it is only for his own benefit. 

Of course , one could argue that in the series’ narrative, Jo Martin was busy hero-ing long before Hartnell, and as a (space transgender) black woman, she is subject to Kimberle Crenshaw’s idea of intersectionality, the idea that marginalized identities can intersect and inflict minorities who fit more than one category of minority with far more extreme repercussions  than people who identify as one minority. Jo Martin, as an earlier incarnation, possibly eskews this entire argument of heroism, of dr who being radicalized by the dalek mob. but her own status as a hero is a retroactive one. She is a recent invention, a character of the late 2010s and who is only now receiving proper focus in the 2020s. Jo Martin is a new version of the doctor, and while she retroactively fits in Hartnell's pattern as an abrasive figure, she is perhaps the most modernist interpretation of dr who in general. A queer (i’d say there’s no textual evidence for this but come on) black woman who is not afraid to fight the powers that be, time lords and daleks alike. A woman unafraid of utilizing force. In the new Trump era, this is more meaningful than ever. And which doctor who incarnations don’t have a official doctor who crossover mr men and little miss book? Oh yeah. Jo Martin, and her nearly as modernist compatriot, Ncuti Gatwa. The corporate synergy crossover has conveniently forgotten to include the queer incarnations of color . this is pure wickedness. Adam hargreaves and his patsy walter the worm must be stopped . 

Why then, are the Daleks chasing (chasing) Walter the Worm? He is as emblematic of their own identity as any other. It is a contradiction (and as we all know, this is a series made of those very contradictions). Do they view him as an ally of the doctor, their nemesis? I find this unlikely. These books are famous for sanitizing nuance. Does Dr. Four analyze the horrors of World War Two and the creation of Nazism in “Dr. Four Genesis?!” Does Dr. Eight make out with his woke friend fitz and say he isn’t a man in Dr. Eight interference part two the hour of the geek? Does dr. thirteen talk about periods and make out with a muslim woman? I think not. 

The end point of nazism, the true end point of evil in any of it’s forms is an inability to recognize humanity in any form. Fascists turn on eachother without a thought. They think all others than themselves can be thrown under the bus with no repercussion, for they lost their souls when they consigned themselves to an idealology of evil. Robert shearman supposes in his 2005 television classic Dalek (dalek) that if a dalek was left unimpeded it would turn on the other daleks until there was only one thing alive in the universe. The daleks are incapable of recognizing an allyship of any form. The sanitized non-woke dr who’s that adam hargreaves and walter the worm have so insidiously created are still their enemy. And so is walter the worm. Because hatred only abets more hatred. Evil cannot withstand it’s own shadow.