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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).
...a guy would hammer a show about 4 whiney women.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
My girlfriend introduced me to The Shield, you insensitive clod.
Your girlfriend introduced me to your bed, you oblivious sod.
Fucking Batman the Animated Series and Justice League the Fucking Animated Series.
Fucking forest for the trees, dude. Hint: They aren't so geeked (double hint, that word) to go see Star Wars as you might think.
The last superhero movie that should, in theory, have appealed to women was Superman Returns which was essentially a Christopher Reeve Superman movie wrapped up in a chick flick, complete with dueling love interests for Lois, and a whole subplot of will Superman figure out and care for his own child? Plus he dies (chick flick requirement) and comes back to life sweetly to give a soliloquy to his sleeping child!
It probably flopped more for male assholery in word of mouth than female. And as a reward, gents, you got a new movie where Superman learns he must kill sometimes. Sigh.
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