AgostoMesmer wrote:ShogunRua wrote:HAHA. "meaning beyond the actual words used"?! So I need to interpret meaning from words that aren't there, like you always do? Agosto, do you even read the nonsense you spew forth?
I doubt this is really such a
wacky idea to you. I was trying to be kind but, you're inconsistent/selective with your literalism. It's just another tactic you use to stir up shit.
Incredible, isn't it?
Agosto is making a bald-faced argument that I should be interpreting meaning from words that aren't there, while ignoring the statements that are. AgostoMesmer wrote:Before this thread I had no idea only 4% of my watched movies were made by Women, it doesn't seem like a perfect situation to me. If there's a reason why 50% of the population only making ~4% of films is better than some more representative share, I can't find it.
The reason you can't find it is your utter refusal to read through the topic, and pig-headed stubbornness. (A fact which myself, movieboy, and anyone who has had the unfortunate task of trying to show you anything knows all too well)
Both myself and Rufflesack have already mentioned, at great length, why the percentages are that way, and that it has nothing to do with discrimination. As usual for Agosto, he completely ignored it, but then brings it up several posts later as an axiom.
I'm having bad flashbacks to the "Agosto Hates Science" topic, so I will just copy and paste a relevant post;
Ever notice how the only complaints about gender disparity are in male-dominated fields, and not the female-dominated ones?
The more I think about it, the more I realize what a perfect analogue authors and the publishing industry are. The vast majority of writers (at least 80%) are women. The vast majority of published, professional writers are women, too. The publishing industry (editors, executives) is 80-90% women. The entire publishing industry is set up to appeal to women, and publishing executives make no secret of this fact.
This, despite the fact that half of English majors are men, and as many men as women can read.
Clearly, this is a sign of horrific gender discrimination! It's an "embarrassing" (to use that idiot female director's word) statistic the publishing industry should be deeply ashamed of. Why do they hate and discriminate against a gender so much?!
Of course, this is all nonsense. In terms of serious readers (those who read multiple books a year), women far, far outnumber men. In terms of people who actually buy books, women greatly outnumber men, too. Again, the book club I moderate is roughly 90% female.
As for writing, women are generally more interested in being authors than men are. Again, this is pretty obvious from looking at any online writing forum.
Thus, it's perfectly normal and natural for the writing/publishing industry to be female-dominated.
But somehow, even intelligent people like mattorama can't make the same elementary reasoning for the movie industry.
This, despite the fact that this very forum is proof of the numbers; we're like 80-90% men. (Is Criticker discriminating against women, too?!) Or the fact that clubs dedicated to directing are mostly populated by men.