User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130510215247/@comment-26975268-20130512172602

All I've got to say is, we need to look from the readers' perspective. We're not going to call Rose "Tyler" when no one knows her as that. We're not going to call John Frobisher "John" because, within Children of Earth, he's alwats referred to as "Frobisher." Readers will get confused if we start calling Ace "McShane." Bernice Summerfield is most often referred to as "Benny," not "Bernice" and certainly not "Summerfield."

So, yes, this may very well end with us saying "Smith, Martha and Joan." But there's nothing wrong with that. It may seem sexist to you, but, if anything, it's sexism on the part of the writers — not us. We simply chronicle events; we don't alter people's names for consistency.