Schlagwort: i can see where this comes from

parthenogenon:

mind–master:

Men don’t understand that saying “[this franchise] now has a/an additional female main character? Another studio caving in to the feminist agenda” is actually a perfect example of why feminism is still needed because women are considered so unequal that their mere acknowledgement of existence in media is considered an “agenda” instead of just a normal thing (like a male lead is). 

This is messy, but:

“If there’s 17 percent women, the men in the group think it’s 50-50,” she told NPR. “And if there’s 33 percent women, the men perceive that as there being more women in the room than men.” 

“Despite the widespread belief that women talk more than men, most of the available evidence suggests just the opposite. When women and men are together, it is the men who talk most. [In] sixty-three studies [w]omen talked more than men in only two studies.”
Which is to say, men talked more than women in sixty-one studies. “… in one hundred public seminars. In [ninety-three], men dominated the discussion time“ “men asked almost two-thirds of the questions during the discussion”  “

In a wide range of communities, from kindergarten through primary, secondary and tertiary education, the same pattern recurs – males dominate classroom talk.“ etc. etc. etc.

Here’s a quote from another Tumblr post with more on the subject:

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

You know what’s interesting? I didn’t mean to go in this direction, but that post also has some numbers:

… men perceived the discussion as being “equal” when women talked only 15% of the time, and the discussion as being dominated by women if they talked only 30% of the time.

Isn’t that neat?

  • 15% & 17% = fair female presence
  • 30% & 33% = raging ocean of moonblood

Isn’t that neat.

I wonder if there’s more data out there like that?

And I wonder if that shows up in stories?

Like, one female character in five, that’s 20%. That’s a LOT of UNMALE! That’s just slightly more than EQUAL – hence men’s FAIR and JUST upset at the inclusion of even one woman in A N Y T H I N G .

Two in five? That “additional female character”? That’s 40%! That’s like ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY MANPERCENT of unman in a group of men! That’s OUTRAGEOUS.

Anyways.

Women’s existence is too much for men.

That’s how JOHNSON’S® Baby Soft the male ego is.

Women exist, and men can’t even.

Men can’t anything. Cuz they’re defective and they suck.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

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