Misogyny is so strange, as it will mock and even kill something just because women like it. If women like stuff they're supposed to like (romance novels, romantic comedies, cutesy anime, female centered TV shows) they will be mocked for it, but if women like something that's marketed towards men, even more so. Shows like Supernatural and Sherlock actively wrote episodes and characters to mock their female fans. Sons of Anarchy had one of it's very popular female characters brutally raped and eventually murdered. The MCU won't stop listening to angry young men when they don't like shows and movies (She Hulk, Captain Marvel, Agatha, Black Widow) that aren't even about them. Why does the demographic even matter here? Is women's money different than men's? There are more of us, why is so much media pandering to the young male demographic. It's so stupid, just let women enjoy and create fandoms. Not everything needs to be filtered through the male experience or a sexed experience at all.

@RickiTarr “Is women’s money different than men’s?” is exactly the question. Misogyny trumps even capitalism.

Many have observed it, but my favorite source is Tom Peters—an aged cishet white male management consultant—who introduced me to the concept twenty years ago: women buy Damn. Near. Everything. The majority of purchasing decisions, business and personal, are either made directly by or strongly influenced by women.

That marketing dollars chase men so hard is absurd. But they do.

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I agree there, papers such as the daily fail do this all the time, there was a article about a young female tennis player who has great talent, but she was described as 'hot' but given the accompanying photo not in the talent way more, as 'hot' in the sexual way and was posing for the photo accordingly, so immediatly became a sex object.

Shame we can't treat upcoming (or any) atheletes in a way that focuses on their talent and potential in their chosen sport.

I guess this is less of an issue in mens sport as that is better funded, which is an issue but one that would detract from the main point of the thread here.

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