Girls & Science Fiction

[Linda06]

Girls still, for the most part, seem to shy away from science fiction. But I too have noticed that more have been embracing the amazing genre.

Now if only we could turn them away from the stupid reality shows...

Well if it helps I hate reality shows with a heated passion of a thousand burning suns And I'm a woman Oh and I also hate soaps See, they aren't even important enough to start with a capital letter. Not like Sci-Fi

Like others have told you, you're hanging with the wrong people.

The woman in my avatar & sig image is Joanne Kelly from Warehouse 13. She plays Myka and is WAY more gorgeous than Valerie Harper.

Myka is awesome

[Gen. Chris]

Well if it helps I hate reality shows with a heated passion of a thousand burning suns And I'm a woman Oh and I also hate soaps See, they aren't even important enough to start with a capital letter. Not like Sci-Fi

Lol...Ya, when I found out 2 major soaps were ending this year I cheered...

[SF_and_Coffee]

Looking on You Tube there seems to be a lot of young women making videos about their favorite science fiction shows, when I was a young man (in the last century) girls were turned off by guys who liked science fiction. My question is, what's happened, and why couldn't it have happened 25 years ago??? [ATTACH=CONFIG]33209[/ATTACH]

I grew up in the same era you did (and a bit earlier) and not only did I grow up watching scifi and reading it, I began writing it myself at the age of 12 or 13, in 1977. And a number of my male friends and even some of my boyfriends liked scifi too. Sometimes we even collaborated on creative projects in the genre.

To this day, a love of scifi is one of the traits I devoutly desire in a man. HUGE turn-on!

Oh, and reality shows and soaps bore me to tears. MY reality television involves travelogues, science and nature documentaries, and some of the zany cooking-related shows on the Food network (when I even bother to watch TV at all anymore... I've got a DVD player and my scifi disks).

[Alteran of Atlantis]

I have personally been in love with Science Fiction for as long as I can remember. I remember my parents watching Star Trek together, and for some reason they didn't want me to watch it because of violence or something. I was maybe four at this time. So I hid under the coffee table and watched it anyway.

At ten I really got into Star Wars and boast a collection of over 65 Star Wars books, and watch any sci-fi show I can get my hands on. So you must have just been hanging out with the wrong crowd, because I have a lot of friends who are also sci-fi fans, and at least two who are fellow Stargate fans.

Conventions are a good place to find other sci-fi fans, especially girls since many of them frequent conventions. Anime conventions especially. Most of the video game and sci-fi cosplayers at anime conventions are girls. The majority of the Doctor Who, Portal, Half-Life, and Assassin's Creed cosplayers I saw at Youmacon 2011 this year were girls. Including me, I was dressed as Alyx Vance.

[4thDoctor]

I don't know, I just never met any when I was young enough for it to have mattered.