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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).
Do we even care? Was it a slow news day?
I don't think that's the point. What's happening is men are going out of their way to even bother rating shows aimed at women.
Given the tone of a lot of the anonymous posts we've seen on Slashdot, especially over the past year or two, whenever a topic involving women comes up - I don't find that surprising in the least.
Misogyny is alive and well on the internet.
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It has been many years since I watched any SitC, but IIRC it portrayed men very shallowly (ojbectifying) as stereotypes. The women got all the airtime and character development. I remember thinking that if a show with four guys was produced doing analogous sexual antics, it would cause howls of fem-protest. For me, there was no entertainment value, but it was an OK tactical training film.
Male-bashing is safe, ostensibly because males are "dominant". Sometimes (past) and someplaces (East) yes. But increeasingly not here, certainly not in divorce court and less so in the workplace. Women get paid 110% of men in my field.
Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women
Excuse me: It's called "manotage". Did the editors sleep through 2014 or something? Everything that misogynists do now has to start with the prefix "man-". At least it does if you want your thinkpiece in Slate to be taken seriously.
Its the victim mentality.
Ironically this is what /. posts are showing all over this conversation. "Oh noes! My privileged position is being challenged! It must be completely without merit! I'm being oppressed!"
A lot of whining going on in this post, does that mean you're a needle-dick too?
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
You just described the gamer-gate movement. They absolutely go out of their way to review stuff that was not targeted at them.
What the hell is a cisfemale? It sounds like something that belongs in the female hygiene section of the store.
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