Datepalm Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 there can't be a TV series, which is why I've never seen it. QEDWhat series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cseresz.reborn Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 "Everyone seems to have seen it"Last ratings:3.759 million viewers 1.9 18-493.766 million viewers 1.8 18-49 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 "Everyone seems to have seen it"Last ratings:3.759 million viewers 1.9 18-493.766 million viewers 1.8 18-49Fuck me bloody sideways.Are you serious?Look up hyperbole and exaggeration please, I have to go bang my head against a concrete wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 If you're done with that bloody sideways coitus, here's something to heal the pain:http://www.kweeper.com/unbowed/image/91969(It's Bentotoro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 If you're done with that bloody sideways coitus, here's something to heal the pain:http://www.kweeper.c...wed/image/91969(It's Bentotoro)That looks delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josephxoxo Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 I was just looking at this poll and 81% of the people who read ASOIAF are men. It's much to high for it to be a fluke and there are a sufficient number of votes and I don't think people are going to lie on a poll like this least of all women pretending to be men.http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/493986/results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Tempted to start a thread called "Why do the bitches want to crush the balls of fantasy"(These posts are from a merged thread titled "Why do women hate fantasy". I'm going for a natural progression.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch-MaesterPhilip Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 I work with several women who've seen me carrying my books and have told me how much they love them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maester Murks Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Why are most Twilight-readers female? I wonder...But seriously: knights, swords, dragons, (lots of) violence... The topics of fantasy are often more appealing to men than they are to many women. Of course, there are loads of female fantasy-fans as well, but Science Fiction and Fantasy have always been genres preferred by men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josephxoxo Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Why are most Twilight-readers female? Stephen King said that the author of Twilight is one of the worst writers he's ever read and all the twilight chicks were like "Well what does Stephen King know about writing." I loled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 It's just one poll. IIRC someone mentioned earlier in this thread that the Westeros.org poll, which probably had much mor participants, showed that 40% of the ASOIF readers are women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alytha Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Why are most Twilight-readers female? I wonder...But seriously: knights, swords, dragons, (lots of) violence... The topics of fantasy are often more appealing to men than they are to many women. Of course, there are loads of female fantasy-fans as well, but Science Fiction and Fantasy have always been genres preferred by men.Hey, I happen to like knight, swords, dragons, and a reasonable amount of violence :PAnd I like Science-Fiction. In fact, I think that in a lot of sci-fi, there's more gender equality than in fantasy, as there's not that much heavy physical labour, and men at sopme point have noticed that women can do physics and maths too. At least in recent stuff. Not counting Fiasco by Stanislas Lem. I'm still convinced that the situation would not have gone that pear-shaped if they had had some women on board to clobber some sense into them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Menina Cebola Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Tentatively jumping into this thread as a new person. Here goes...I am a 25 year old female. I've loved fantasy since I was very young when my mum told my sister and I about The Hobbit and LOTR. After those I moved onto David Eddings. It never bothered me that many of the characters were male. There was always at least one strong female character. In any book where there wasn't any decent female characters, it never struck me as an issue since I always thought if the characters are written well enough, it shouldn't matter which gender they are, as long as the reader (whichever gender they may be) can relate to that character. ASOIAF has a lot of strong female characters which may attract women looking to read about them, but I've always found myself drawn to Sansa in the books,despite the fact she seems less of a role model as such than a character like Arya. It is never the characters which draw me to fantasy. I tried the Twilight books, and would've enjoyed them if I was a very young teenager, but fantasy for me, like other posters have mentioned, is about the escapism. I can relate to the characters and the problems they face, but it is so far removed from reality, it is more pleasurable to find myself lost in the books than it would be if I were reading a romance or adventure novel set in a more realistic setting. Plus, what modern woman of any age wouldn't enjoy reading the filthy exploits in ASOIAF, the swearing and the violence? It takes you back to the age of chivalry and makes you wish that there were gents like Jaime and Tyrion about now. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solmyr Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 It takes you back to the age of chivalry and makes you wish that there were gents like Jaime and Tyrion about now. :)Sadly they outlawed pushing 6-year-olds from towers, incest, strangling women, murdering your father. I admit that giving your wife to a barracks full of guards for silver stags each might still be legal, if consent is proven :). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyanna Stark Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Why are most Twilight-readers female? I wonder...Because Twilight is a romance with Vampires, but it's more hyped than Mills & Boon so more buy it. And it has a movie made from it with a "hot guy" playing the lead.And read chapter 3 (I think it is) and see the sucker punch Stephanie Meyer lays down. It plays totally into all the insecure teenage girls out there, and a lot of people who have been insecure teenage girls. It's 100% "the special guy understands me without my having to explain anything and I got picked above everyone despite being so average!". It's about as subtle as a grapple hook, but you know, it works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Menina Cebola Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Sadly they outlawed pushing 6-year-olds from towers, incest, strangling women, murdering your father. I admit that giving your wife to a barracks full of guards for silver stags each might still be legal, if consent is proven :).Shame that. Ah well, nobody's perfect :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 It's 100% "the special guy understands me without my having to explain anything and I got picked above everyone despite being so average!". It's about as subtle as a grapple hook, but you know, it works!Bella == Kvothe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Again, I really think that this is a regional thing as well. I doubt there are as many fantasy/scifi readers in backwoods Arkansas as there are in New York City. And the same would probably be even moreso for girls.That's true of reading for entertainment in general. I'm confused why violence, knights and dragons wouldn't appeal to women. Even if you're going from a stupid sexist pov almost all the fairy tales and Disney movies with princesses have knights or dragons or violence. Why are those things things women don't like? (hint: they still are) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Callers Only Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Tempted to start a thread called "Why do the bitches want to crush the balls of fantasy"(These posts are from a merged thread titled "Why do women hate fantasy". I'm going for a natural progression.)I suggest "... have succeeded in crushing the balls of fantasy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edda van Heefmstra Ruston Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Epistasis of the "conform to what society says you should and shouldn't like" gene over the "likes fantasy" gene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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