Doctor Who villain star hits back at viewers who think the show has got too inclusive: “Why don’t you let your favorite show teach you something new?”

Drag queen and Doctor Who star Jinkx Monsoon has responded to complaints that the long-running sci-fi show is becoming “too progressive” – and she thinks it’s “ridiculous” for fans to take issue with something that she sees as integral to the genre.

“Drag queens are especially apt for heightened performance such as sci-fi, horror, or fantasy, because we already live in the world of the extreme and the absurd,” Monsoon tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Doctor Who on the cover. “I think you might be surprised at how many drag performers are huge Doctor Who nerds, because we love to escape into fantasy. Queerness has always been infused in these extreme forms of storytelling.”