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from Camille Bacon-Smith <[log in to unmask]>:
I apologize to anyone who I may have offended, I was making an observation
from my limited viewpoint. If what Rick Berman said is true (I had never
heard that quote before) then it is a sad fact that they are not appealing
to women. Again, my apologies.
Negative Burn
"Time is the fire in which we burn"
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> Nope. Not true. Rick Berman himself has perpetuated this particularly
> noxious assumption as a reason why they don't have to cater to women's
> taste--he said in TV guide a few years ago that they are making a show
> for beer drinking truck driving guys, not for anybody else, so he didn't
> really care if anybody else liked the show. (I do not know if TVG
> skewed what he said, so don't lay it on me. But that is what he is
> quoted as saying,)
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> Men and women who do fandom don't always attend the same venues, so that
> some conventions have almost all women and some have almost all men.
> Some conventions have a nearly even mix. Men tend to post more in
> usenet groups, but women tend to dominate a lot of the email lists. And
> then there is fan fiction.
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> But even more significant to Paramount, people who DON'T participate in
> fandom seem to be evenly divided, with women buying a lot of the books
> sold and watching a lot of the Tv.
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> Camille Bacon-Smith
> (Author of ENTERPRISING WOMEN)
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