It's funny (and a bit annoying) because popular opinion would have everyone believe that women in Doctor Who prior to the reboot were nothing but simpering damsels in distress and the reboot radicalised the show by giving them agency and feminism, yet when you go back and actually watch the classic show, properly, getting to know the characters as individuals, you soon realise that this is not true at all, the female characters were badass right from the start. Then compare early Who with other shows being made at the time and you realise how progressive it really was, in so many ways.