Maybe there is also the implication that if you have a character of color who has gone through a certain amount of education that they have somehow bought more into our value system (maybe some sort of creepy "being tamed" association? Or just the idea of education as the great equalizer).
With regard to Francine (and to me Francine is more interesting than Tish or Martha for several reasons) I don't think we're talking about "a certain amount of education" or even about having "bought more into our value system". It seemed clear to me that whatever circumstances had brought Francine as a small child to the UK (which, given her age and the dating of mass Commonwealth immigration into the UK, seems the most probable scenario) this will have included a severe class degradation from the position which she and her parents enjoyed in their country of origin (wherever that is supposed to be). The initial reason she attacks "the Doctor" is that he seems - as well as being inherently dangerous (about which she is not wrong) - to be jeopardising Martha's chances of getting back to the class into which Francine was born, by messing about with her exam chances. Her difficulties with her husband's affair stem largely from the fact he's thrown her over for a common little tart. The Master puts her into maid's uniform not merely for the RTD kink factor (all women in the Whoiverse under the age of 60 get shoved into either maid's gear, nurse's gear or bondage kit sooner or later) but because it's so bleeding obvious that she comes from the class that hires help, rather than is help (and I come from a long, long line of charwomen and domestic servants).
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With regard to Francine (and to me Francine is more interesting than Tish or Martha for several reasons) I don't think we're talking about "a certain amount of education" or even about having "bought more into our value system". It seemed clear to me that whatever circumstances had brought Francine as a small child to the UK (which, given her age and the dating of mass Commonwealth immigration into the UK, seems the most probable scenario) this will have included a severe class degradation from the position which she and her parents enjoyed in their country of origin (wherever that is supposed to be). The initial reason she attacks "the Doctor" is that he seems - as well as being inherently dangerous (about which she is not wrong) - to be jeopardising Martha's chances of getting back to the class into which Francine was born, by messing about with her exam chances. Her difficulties with her husband's affair stem largely from the fact he's thrown her over for a common little tart. The Master puts her into maid's uniform not merely for the RTD kink factor (all women in the Whoiverse under the age of 60 get shoved into either maid's gear, nurse's gear or bondage kit sooner or later) but because it's so bleeding obvious that she comes from the class that hires help, rather than is help (and I come from a long, long line of charwomen and domestic servants).