Women Watch SF - Film at 11 (after Buffy)

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I don't normally read the Telegraph in the morning, but via Slashdot I find a story about the Sci-Fi Channel's latest survey that indicates that their audience is now 51:49 female-to-male. It goes on to quote our very own Adam Roberts:

"More women are tuning in to see the relationships develop between wittily-written, complex central characters they can identify with. A film like The Matrix attracted female viewers partly because it was about complicated concepts of life and death. It also had Keanu Reeves running around in leather, which helped."

Ahem. Yes. But I think I see a programme item for Concussion.

On another note, I do read the Guardian/Observer, and was going to comment on this story ('foam at the mouth' would actually be more accurate). But nhw, who knows far more about the FRY than I ever will, has done so for me.

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[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

was going to comment on this story

Chomsky's original defence of Living Marxism, pretending that the real issue was freedom of speech rather than its deliberate lies about Serbian aggression, was the point at which I gave up reading him. I daresay that he remains an incisive critic of US foreign policy, but as far as I'm concerned his copybook is forever blotted.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

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bibliofile has comment (http://www.livejournal.com/users/bibliofile/99764.html) on this too.

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It also had Keanu Reeves running around in leather, which helped.

Only for the very young, newly adolescent females. Personally, I'd say Harrison Ford as Han Solo had a lot to do with the last three decades.