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Are there any major industries within entertainment as heavily skewed towards women as sports are towards men?
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In music, pop isn’t a strict genre. Even though the popular artists right now are women, it wasn’t too long ago that rock bands were the ‘popular’ acts. But even now, more traditionally ‘poppy’ acts like the Weeknd and Harry Styles have been successful for years.

In movies and TV, while studios have often struggled to respond to women’s interests, there are at least a certain amount of options. There’s a tendency to box products popular with women into ‘chick flicks’, but on the flip side, Disney stuff has been popular with young girls for decades. Additionally, while it’s usually men who are the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, women are also very famous and well-paid.

In sport… I’m at a loss. Both the top athletes and the primary consumers are overwhelmingly men, and in the latter’s case that sometime even applies for women’s sports. As for sports which women have historically been successful in, pin-drop silence. Gymnastics, for example, never gets a look in outside of the Olympics.

Music and film can at least be considered gender-neutral art forms, but sport as a whole is given the same amount of attention as they are. And yet, it seems like women are but a drop in the ocean. What are your thoughts on this?

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You can't convince me men really out there reading non fiction and still refuse to accept facts. Ain't no way 😭 they gotta be reading handmaid's tail or something and deciding that's what it should be.

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Ah yes, Playing to Win: Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys. Absolutely what needs to be read. Definitely not the news articles about women being burned alive over land arguments or even a nice book about the inventions women helped to create that shaped modern living.

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I genuinely wish the states put more love into the volleyball world or rugby.

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