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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:Voyager? by Anubis350 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sisko is a pussy, flame away :-P

    seriously though, you may have a point. OTOH, Sisko is annoying enough in seasons 1 and 7 of ds9 that I don't much like 'im ayway.

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