Shocking

Because my media landscape skews heavily female, itโ€™s shocking when I experience the utter Annette-Schmucker-People-Women-Emotions-Love-Contemporary-Art-Contemporary-Artsausagefest 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, canโ€™t 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, itโ€™s 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 donโ€™t 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 canโ€™t understand it.

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