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Originally Posted by Sparrow
 I'm a man and I've never made any claims that men started vidding.
Also, I've been mistaken for a female here.
And another thing is that I don't think everything in the world (apart from fanfic) was 'made for men' - handbags for instance  .
And another other thing is that there are more than a 'few venues' where womens' creativity is encouraged.
There - I've said it! |
I thought this might help. The Male Privilege Checklist.
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/the-mal...ege-checklist/
Number 41 seems fitting for this conversation.
"1. Assuming I am heterosexual, magazines, billboards, television, movies, pornography, and virtually all of media is filled with images of scantily-clad women intended to appeal to me sexually. Such images of men exist, but are rarer."
And for the record how many women were nominated this year for the Hugo Awards?
You can say more men wrote more science fiction but it could also be people are more willing to buy novels from men so women writers are excluded at a higher frequency.
And please don't say women always have romance novels...I'm a woman and I like science fiction.
If women do have more "venues" to share their creativity they are not as respected as the venues where men share their creativity. I also do not agree that women have more venues. Sure we have more than we had in the past but it's not equal to what men have.