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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.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
*buys first available plane ticket to England*
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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?
Immigration to UK website soon to be slashdotted.
"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."