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Wheel of Chauvanism!
GSWitch:
Every time Wheel has a special week of some sort, female contestants are ALWAYS favored! The Witch (my mascot) is loving it!
PROOF OF POINT #1
On Location: On the very first week of when they visit a city (IE: New York, Miami, San Diego) when they have normal contestants, one of the five shows always has 3 LADIES! The reason, Dallas Week when the gentlemen swept the first week! The producers prevented this by always having 3 ladies to avoid a men's sweep! The closest ladies sweep happened in New Orleans (9-1)!
PROOF OF POINT #2
NFL PLAYERS/NBA/SOAP STARS/COUNTRY STARS; Again always three females with one male once or twice a week! This is not Match Game 7X, Super Password, The 80's $25,000 Pyramid or (gulp) Just Men!!
What next? A bonded security agent hiding the $100,000 card?
It took 5 YEARS for 3 gentlemen to play! Call me a backwards Susan B. Anthony, but I fight over injustice. Pardon the Schoolhouse Rock parody...
"Oh we are suffering, just like sufferage!
Not a man could spin or try to solve the puzzle.
There's no 19th amendment, striking that restrictive rule!"
J.R.:
Uh... wow. All I can say is... wow. You don't get out of the house much, do ya ?
I know there were long streches on the daytime WOF with all 3 contestants female, but thats when Game Shows were primarity marketed towards Housewives.
This got me thinking (And I know I commenteted this at the GSC): If game shows were marketed towards women, then why is virtually 97 % of it's fans male ?
-Joe R.
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Nov 18 2003, 08:35 PM\']
This got me thinking (And I know I commenteted this at the GSC): If game shows were marketed towards women, then why is virtually 97 % of it's fans male ?
-Joe R. [/quote]
I've wondered the same thing, especially in regards to this board being close to 97% Male.
uncamark:
[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Nov 18 2003, 08:35 PM\']This got me thinking (And I know I commenteted this at the GSC): If game shows were marketed towards women, then why is virtually 97 % of it's fans male ?[/quote]
Most of us got together through the Internet, in particular Usenet (a.t.g-s), which is still primarily a male province.
Also, I think that the true obsessives that would post on boards or attend things like GSCs tend more to be men than women. I don't know why, but seems to me that most of the attendees at SF/fantasy conventions are also male.
Perhaps a truer gauge would be looking at the male/female breakdown of a "TPIR" audience or of people who try out for a show like "Wheel" (Q&As like "J!" tend to get mostly males trying out).
GSWitch:
[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Nov 18 2003, 07:35 PM\'] Uh... wow. All I can say is... wow. You don't get out of the house much, do ya ?
I know there were long streches on the daytime WOF with all 3 contestants female, but thats when Game Shows were primarity marketed towards Housewives. [/quote]
First off, I have a very good memory & like to keep stats! I'm not another Rain Man!
BTW, when the daytime Wheel first started on NBC in 1975, I do remember seeing a 1980 episode when three gentlemen played! Chuck Woolery comes out & after introducing Susan Stafford, he says,
"Am I on the right show? We never had three men before, what a surprise! Five years doing this show & this has never happened!"
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