Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com)

FiveThirtyEight has an interesting article today which accuses men of sabotaging the online reviews of TV shows aimed at women. The publication cites an example of "Sex and the City", a show which apparently won plenty of awards and ran for many years on TV, getting hammered by males on IMDb. Compared to women, who amounted to 60% of the people who rated the show with an average of 8.1, men gave it a 5.8 rating. It's not an isolated case, FiveThirtyEight says, citing several other instances where the male audience has downvoted shows aimed at women audience. From the article: The shows with the largest proportion of male raters are mostly sports, video game web series, science fiction and cartoons. The programs with the highest proportion of female voters are -- at least the American ones -- mostly from The CW and Freeform, the new name of the network previously called ABC Family. This list is pretty hilarious. Beyond the top 25, shown in the table above, male-dominated shows of note include: "Blue Mountain State" (92 percent male), "Batman: Beyond" (91 percent), "Batman: The Animated Series" (90 percent), "The Shield" (90 percent), "Ballers" (90 percent), "Justice League" (90 percent), and "The League" (88 percent). "Star Trek: Enterprise" is the most male-heavy of the various official live-action Trek enterprises, while "Battlestar Galactica" still managed to grab 15 percent of its ratings from women, which is somewhat shocking. For women, other skewed programming includes "Private Practice" (71 percent female), "Gossip Girl" and "Gilmore Girls" (67 percent each), "Grey's Anatomy" (60 percent), "Scandal" (60 percent), and "One Tree Hill" (59 percent).

Comments

Men == Women, etc.

[hsthompson69]

All men should be counted as women because #transgender.

Corollary: all whites should be counted as black because #transracial.

Re:Men == Women, etc.

[hsthompson69]

There's only really one transgender I've seen - XY chromosomes, with androgen insensitivity syndrome, so that the testes never descend, there is no uterus or menstruation, but otherwise the body is phenotypic female. The "I identify as some social construct that requires me to mutilate myself" thing is mental illness, pure and simple.

But, if SJWs are going to demand that transgender is a thing, and simply identifying as something makes it legitimate and true, then this goes for *everything*. People with penises can go to women's restrooms, play and dominate women's sports leagues, get affirmative action for being female, get preferential treatment in family court for being female, avoid registering for the selective service because they're female, so on and so on.

tl;dr - There is no such thing as gender differences if you believe it's simply self-identification.

Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman

[AmiMoJo]

If you don't like those shows why not just communicate that to your partner? If she cares about you she won't force you to do things you hate doing, and will find something mutually enjoyable for "quality time". If she doesn't care and insists on torturing you, maybe it's time to reconsider your relationship.

No one's out to sabotage women's television.

If what you say is correct then it seems like men such as yourself who are forced to watch these shows are trying to sabotage them with bad reviews so you don't have to watch them any more.