ibwolf's boasting about his (vast) DVD collection in another thread basically made me ask myself if you can recognize a person as being either male or female by what s/he likes to watch. Which again raised the question of whether there are as few sci-fi loving women out there as the stereotype suggests.
I'd say the action/adventure genre is still mostly male-dominated. And then there's the love story thing at the other end. Where's sci-fi?
My personal experience suggests that the majority of sci-fi fans are men as well (as I am someone who's punished with female friends who are all impersonations of the cliché - with, needless to say, me being the only exception).
So, I'm wondering if they're people out there who don't fit the cliché concerning "gender-specific" genres and have similar experience. Like when I told my female friends that I was into "Stargate", they were all like "Oh, you dig that MacGyver guy, don't you?". I mean, how can you assume that a woman will just watch sci-fi if there's a hot male character in it (turn it around for men: hot female character in a chick flick)? So, have you ever been given strange looks because your favored type of entertainment is not the same as many others' of your gender?
I'd be interested in opinions of both women and men. I hope I haven't been (all too ) sexist.
I'd say the action/adventure genre is still mostly male-dominated. And then there's the love story thing at the other end. Where's sci-fi?
My personal experience suggests that the majority of sci-fi fans are men as well (as I am someone who's punished with female friends who are all impersonations of the cliché - with, needless to say, me being the only exception).
So, I'm wondering if they're people out there who don't fit the cliché concerning "gender-specific" genres and have similar experience. Like when I told my female friends that I was into "Stargate", they were all like "Oh, you dig that MacGyver guy, don't you?". I mean, how can you assume that a woman will just watch sci-fi if there's a hot male character in it (turn it around for men: hot female character in a chick flick)? So, have you ever been given strange looks because your favored type of entertainment is not the same as many others' of your gender?
I'd be interested in opinions of both women and men. I hope I haven't been (all too ) sexist.
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