Comments on: You Say Female-Gay Ghetto Like It’s a Bad Thing

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:56:10 +0000

if my very limited background serves me, hasn't TV always been aimed more towards the female viewer because of the perception that they spend a family's money? Seems so on Mad Men(i realize that it's a tv show). I'm not complaining, per say, because I'll watch any show really. Though, cartoons, when I grew up, seemed to be squarely marketed towards "males." I could be wrong.

By: Pepper

Pepper — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:03:05 +0000

I enjoy that site for the increasing stupidity of the posts but am more saddened by it than anything else. They banter back and forth about things, but its the equivalent of screaming at a brick wall.

However, the fact that people are so backwards-egads.

Probably doesn't want women on his TV because he barely knows what to do with a living one in the first place.

In other words, Lisa- go kick his frakkin' arse-

By: Ari Bavel

Ari Bavel — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:04:00 +0000

Lisa, you ROCK, girl!!!!!!!

By: Dewit

Dewit — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:55:47 +0000

SPN is not a guy oriented show, sorry. Sure there is gore and explosions and that type of stuff but seriously: Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. The tagline for the show is "scary just got sexy." And even though Jensen Ackles lips/mouth probably has appeal for both sexes, I can assure you it ain't the men that the publicity people are trying to target.

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:13:38 +0000

That tells me that those guys either live in a rural area where there is no access to high speed or they don't interact with women very often. That said though, there are still a lot of women who shy away from the internet (I work with many of them – we usually have nothing to talk about). I'm not referring to any studies, just what I've encountered in my real life (my life in Earth as my nephews would say). But, even though they're around, I'd like to think they're the minority.

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:06:46 +0000

I think he classified Dexter as an edgy female-skewing show because the serial killer was the hero. Who knew "male-friendly" was such a narrow field? I thought all it took was explosions, boobs, and a candy bar.

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:56:46 +0000

That's the accepted manly way of experiencing feelings: eating them in a sandwich with a Bud Light to wash it down.

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:55:03 +0000

BTW, loved your comments on Hamlet!

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:52:16 +0000

Considering his statements about Smallville, Supernatural, BSG and Stargate, I wonder if he really is watching TV, or simply responding to statistics (real and made-up) about it. I imagine he watches a lot of action flicks.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:56:49 +0000

continued, again…

It's pretty insulting how Mr. Whiskey and several of the commenters assume that women don't use the internet, as well. Hell, with the network programming log-jam on Monday nights last season, I had to watch shows on Hulu just to keep up with all the shows I enjoy, but go there all the time anyway. Listening to episodes of shows I like in the background while I'm working makes tedious data entry a lot less painful and Hulu means that I don't have to tote my DVDs around. [/tangent]

::sigh:: See what you've done, Lisa? You got me all worked up and rant-y. ;p

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:43:34 +0000

continued…

And Smallville and Supernatural are boy shows? Really?! Both of those shows have been pandering to their largely female fanbases for years. Heck, Smallville used to be part of what was referred to by viewers as the WB's "Hoyay Wednesday" lineup when it was paired with the last couple seasons of Angel, and the writers deliberately played up the gay subtext between the leading men on both shows. Round about season 5, it was almost as gay-friendly as Torchwood.

Of the networks he listed as "male oriented", I often watch History, Discovery, NatGeo, USA, and Spike. Not so much with the Lifetime, WE, and Oxygen, and the only thing I watch on Showtime is Dexter, which I imagine he'd classify as a "male-friendly" show, what with it being about a sociopathic serial killer and all. I will admit to loving Food Network, but so does my brother and so did our dad. We're a family that likes food. Also, while I'm not a football fan (I'm a hockey girl.), I have several female friends who are, and several straight male friends who aren't. On the whole, it sounds like he's rather entrenched in the so-called "cult of masculinity".

…to be continued, again.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:40:22 +0000

I… Wow. That's just… I almost didn't dare go read the original post. (And I only got as far as the first few anti-Semitic comment before I had to stop.)

As a Stargate fan, I can tell that this guy doesn't spend any time in online fora and has never attended a convention. If he did, he'd know that the fanbase for his precious "straight ahead… very masculine" series is most decidedly skewed towards The Wimmins. At a convention I attended a few years ago, the audience was probably 60-70% female, and a lot of the men were there with wives / girlfriends and kids. In fact, his complaints about TV's lack of "explosions and CGI" makes me wonder if he's watched any episodes of either Stargate series at all. Those guys love to blow sh*t up.

…to be continued.

By: Rhea Dee

Rhea Dee — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:23:10 +0000

Blogs and thoughts like that can easily be summed up with this phrase: "But who will think of the white men?" Cause, really, who will? I mean, no one is thinking about them, ever. They are so totally the minority. I can't believe I never realized that. Wow. All this time, no one has been looking out for the white man, and they've just been limping along trying to survive with 99.9% of privilege instead of the full 100%. That's tough. I should have thought of them. That must be agony. Oh dear. I must go make Whiskey a sandwich. A sandwich made up of my tears over the pure AGGGGOOOONY he must experience on a daily basis.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:45:33 +0000

I just replied to that guy's post. ARGH. I can't believe someone alive and watching television TODAY wrote that.