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UK Female Sci-Fi Viewers Now Outnumber Males
mosel-saar-ruwer writes "The UK Telegraph is reporting that, due to the popularity of Buffy, Lara Croft, and Xena, female sci-fi viewers now outnumber males, at 51%-49%. From the article: 'People have an impression of sci-fi fans being small men who sit in the dark watching Star Trek but it's not like that now ... There has been an increase in positive female role models, whereas in Star Trek, all the women were either aliens or wore short skirts.'"
who watches sci-fi in well-lit rooms. So much for stereotypes.
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do they outnumber the men in mass or in numbers?
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Are you sure?
Maybe they just "say" they are women.
Maybe they really are aliens in short skirts!
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Studies show that British women watch more sci-fi than British men do. The key reasons the researches found for this were that British men are less entertaining than sci-fi and that British women aren't worth taking out on a Friday night, anyhow.
What are you doing later?
They designed a short skirt for some of the female staff in STNG. They even suggested that in the future, males could wear them too.
Interesting, is that where Futurama gets Zap Brannigan's short short skirt from?
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Meh. Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science, so it works out the same anyway...
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UK lesbians now outnumber male geeks.
I live unfortuanately close to Scotland and I can assure you that skirt-wearing Scots aren't all gay, they're mainly just normal transvestites.
I for one welcome our British, sci-fi watching, FEMALE overlords. Really, really welcome them :-)
:-)
My first girlfriend was a sci-fi and fan-fiction fanatic, which turned out to be the basis of our relationship. Don't base your relationship on Star Trek, it gets cancelled too much.
[yes, I'm exagerating, slightly]
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And to think, in my day I just found women to have sex with.
;)
I am sure you will become their best friends....
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Are you implying that there's something wrong with short skirts?
It actually did come up in a TNG episode.
Worf: Why do we have to wear these ridiculous uniforms?
Riker: It's a formal reception for Admiral Foobar.
Worf: [mutter] They look like dresses...
Riker: That's an incredibly outmoded and sexist thing to say! [beat] Besides, you look good in a dress.
Worf: [Klingon Stare-o-death]
My script don't crash! She crashes, you crashed her!
Shhhhh! Stop saying that. If we let them believe that stuff is SciFi, then we are that much closer to the all-girl SciFi convention I fantasize about every night.
"However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
I personally found it odd that they mentioned shows whose main characters are generally thought of as "cute girls" and claimed that as the reason more *women* were watching...
"Which episode was that?"
It was that episode where the Enterprise entered a strange area of space. Mr. Data generated a theory that correctly explained what it was they were experiencing. Riker used a metaphor to describe the phenomenon so bumpkins like me could understand it. Mr. La Forge set up some strange energy thingy to fire at it, but that didn't work. Worf suggested battle stations, but Picard didn't want to appear aggressive. Wesley knew all along what to do but nobody listened to him. Troi said people were scared. I forget how they got out of it but the effect was pretty neat. The most notable aspect of this episode was that the Holodeck was in perfect working order.
"Derp de derp."
That's really disturbing ... I think I'm scarred for life.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
I'm fairly certain that the topless, leather-kilt-clad muscleman I saw leading his friend around on a leash in Brighton during some sort of "Pride" festival probably was gay. Just a guess.
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If we let them believe that stuff is SciFi, then we are that much closer to the all-girl SciFi convention I fantasize about every night.
:o)
Unless you're female, you wouldn't be able to get in.
And if that's true, unless you're lesbian or bisexual, why would you care?
And if you're female and bisexual, what are you doing next weekend?