Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/men-are-sabotaging-the-online-reviews-of-tv-shows-aimed-at-women/

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For a show with the IMDb average gender breakdown of 30 percent women and 70 percent men, men rated the show 0.5 points lower than women did, on average. When a show’s raters split evenly by gender, 50-50, men rated the program a full 1 point lower than women did.

We can also drill down and look at the percentage of IMDb users who assigned a 1 rating to programs, the lowest score. Among shows with at least 10,000 ratings (566 programs of our overall set of 2,514), men and women gave out 1s at about the same rate: 2.8 percent of male votes were a 1, while 2.1 percent of female votes were a 1. So one gender is not particularly more negative than the other.

But that’s for all shows with more than 10,000 votes. When you look at shows that have at least 10,000 ratings and raters who skewed male or female, a different picture emerges. Of the top 100 shows that skewed male, 3.3 percent of female votes were 1 out of 10. But of the top 100 shows that skewed female, 6.7 percent of male votes were 1 out of 10. That’s a pretty huge difference.

The overall effect of this imbalance is profound. Among shows with 10,000 ratings or more, the average rating of the top-100 male-skewing shows was 8.2, while the average rating of the top-100 female shows was 7.4.

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1. B-but men are strong and never falter in character!!!

They're men!

Lmao, I'm sorry I just can't help but laugh at all the easily bruised egos.

Being a male myself, Im so thankful that I was never inherently jealous or felt persecuted because other people had their own things.

Feminism is more than about helping women achieve equality, it's also about removing the culture that causes male toxicity and empowering men to be better allies to women.

We're all capable of being so good to each other, I can't fathom why these kinds of men are such BABIES. They need to realize that they are victims of a culture that trains them to believe they are owed everything because of their gender.

It's sad. And it shouldn't be funny.

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2. Soooo,

that's why we get TV shows with supposedly full-grown men acting like 14-year-olds.

Or

TV shows with men who talk about themselves constantly,

Or

TV shows where men think that they have to explain EVERYTHING..."I am going across the floor to the door. In the door is a round thing called a knob, and when I turn it, the door will open."

Or

"reality shows"...UGH!