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I’ll be one of the first to agree that Ten can be a real dick but in the case of not catering to Martha’s feelings for him I don’t think he is at all. The above gifs are how he responds to Martha flirting with him. He tells her straight up about Rose, and how she isn’t a replacement. He makes it very clear that he doesn’t want her flirting with him. Especially in that last gif! He holds eye contact, leans right into her face, and gives a very firm ‘stop it!’. Most of the tags in this post are about how awful ppl think Ten is because they think he’s not valuing Martha. They go right from the above scene to Shakespeare and sharing a bed. It’s been what? Maybe a couple of hours since Ten basically said ‘it’s not gonna happen lady!’ but ppl are calling him a dick because he mentioned Rose with Martha right there? They haven’t even known each for 24 hours but he’s supposed to pack his pain away and make sure she feels important to him at all times? Yes, he can be an insensitive, jackass, flirty slut but I’m on his side with this one. If anything Martha is the dick for not recognizing her new friend is in pain and instead just focuses on her own feelings of wanting him to like her. Yes, Ten said Rose was safe and with her family but clearly he’s upset. Donna noticed it immediately but Martha just wants to bone. If roles were reversed, and it was a woman who gave that firm of a ‘stop it!’ to a man, we’d be calling the guy a stalking pervert if he kept at it. This isn’t a critique on Martha as a whole. She’s fine, but he never gave her a reason to think he wanted her as more than a companion ever. I just don’t think Ten was in the wrong for not tiptoeing around her crush on him.
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