Tuesday afternoon declarations

[bironic]

1. I don't care what anyone says; Luke Skywalker was hot.

2. Three words for you: multifandom kink_bingo.

3. Saw House. Don't know what to say about it yet. May rewatch some or all of the season first.

4. At a lunch meeting in the Bronx today -- hooray for field trips -- I tried a Snapple lemonade with my hot corned beef sandwich* and discovered that the aftertaste is like the smell in a public restroom. It is entirely possible that Snapple uses the same chemicals found in commercial toilet cleansers.

* because if you're going to be in NYC, you may as well do it right

5. This smart blog article about female sci fi fans links to a NYT article that provides yet more stupidity on the persistent belief that women don't like science fiction and the actions networks have taken to de-emphasize the traditional sci fi aspects of their shows (or ads for their shows) and play up romance and fantasy elements to attract a greater female viewership when they don't seem to realize they already have a substantial female viewership and don't understand what much of that viewership wants.

Look at the Sci Fi Channel's faulty logic, quoted in the Times:

"There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men, that it was for young men and that it was for geeky young men," said Bonnie Hammer, the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, which oversees Sci Fi. "We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre."

Ugh. (Found via this brief poll about female sci fi fans linked at fanthropology.)

6. It's raining. It makes me want to start drafting one of the Bingo stories (TENTACLES!) instead of doing my work.

Comments

[theninth.livejournal.com]

I think I know more female sci-fi fans than I know male fans. And I mean hard science sci-fi and not the "soft" stuff. I mean politics and war and machines and... y'know... science. The "skip the relationship and show me the machines" types.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I would really like to know where the Sci Fi Channel is getting its viewership "data" even if we're not going to figure out why the assumptions/stereotypes persist anytime soon.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

Some guy somewhere went to a sci-fi con or maybe a comic book store and said "There are more men here than women. That must mean something!"

Possibly, they weren't looking in the right places.

All the women were probably off somewhere watching things blow up while the guys stood around and talked.