Because my media landscape skews heavily female, itโs shocking when I experience the utter
sausagefest in media that most people are subjected to.
-Usually, I listen to about 90% female musicians.
-Read about 60% female authors, with usually 80% female protagonists.
-Interact with nearly all women as friends. (Sorry, canโt do raging masculine entitlement which 99% of men have, and am terrible at masculine posturing necessary to fit in with men.)
-Deliberately watch TV shows and movies with at least 50%+ women.
Watching and listening to media where women are 50% or more of the protagonists, antagonists and in general background characters, itโs weird when I look at the media landscape of the normals where women are 10% of 15% (at most) of characters, directors and writers.
How do normal people stand this, accept this? So terrible.
I donโt think I deserve any special award for this. It is just my preference as in my opinion women-produced media is often better โ they must try harder to get to the same place men do, so the quality is often a great deal higher.
And furthermore, why would I want to ignore the stories of half the world, especially as the story of the underdog (which women all too often are in society) is usually more interesting?
Whenever I venture out accidentally into the media world of the normal people, I hardly know what hit me as my brain is saying, Did all the women, like, die or something?
Just canโt understand it.