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UK Female Sci-Fi Viewers Now Outnumber Males

Posted by Zonk on from the better-stories-longer-skirts dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:First to defend Gene Roddenberry by nmb3000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    There actually is a shot somewhere early in the series with a man wearing one of those skirts.

    You can see it here.

    Yeah, I think I'm glad they dumped those. What's too bad is they never refer to them later in the series. Why not take a jab at themselves for a laugh? For example when Riker makes a comment to Picard about how he hates the dress uniform, Picard could reply that, "at least he didn't have to wear those awful skirts."

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  2. I can't believe... by PFritz21 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...that anyone hasn't mentioned http://www.sg1archive.com/bios/at.shtmlUSAF Lt. Col. Samantha Carter, Ph. D.