I was reading an article about how the sister of Elon Musk started a streaming service called PassionFlix which is a streaming service geared to women because the movies are all romantic comedy or some form of romance type show/movie. She was saying that she noticed the large number of women reading 50 Shades and so she figured there was a major market for romance movies.
I'll confess that while I like all the blood and guts manly stuff I will watch or read romance stuff from time to time due to the fact I stupidly watched rom-coms in my teens thinking I could get insight with meeting women (was really bad with the ladies back then). I ended up learning that those are the worst things to look at for advice because if a woman isn't interested, she ain't interested and she won't realize all of a sudden that you are the perfect guy for her.
But my annoyance with the article is that she is doing the opposite of what major IPs are doing. Marvel and DC have to know the general audience for comic books are males and yet the insist on marketing to teenage girls who don't read comics. Despite characters like Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and America Chavez flopping in the comic books, they keep pushing them on screen. Disney buys Star Wars to appeal to boys, and then they market to teenage girls. He-Man, gaming, and the list goes on.
If one of us said "you know I notice that mostly guys buy Sci-Fi so I am going to start a Sci-Fi publishing company that caters to them" we would get so much hatred. Men are free to read romance novels just like women are free to buy video games or read comic books, but demanding that EVERYTHING cater to you is absurd on so many levels.
True. It’s just frustrating considering how much fun nerdiness was in decades past
Remember the old internet? When it was all like this place? That was great.
Tolerance would largely seem to have been a bad idea. Tolerant people let others do what they want and part of what those people want is to not tolerate those same tolerant people, so everything shifts hard left. Game-theory wise everything is destined to shift left if left unchecked.
Someone should make a streaming service for men that’s all manly shit and good comedy. If someone tries claiming they’re offended, the response should be ‘good’. Make movie companies that have the sole goal of creating newer and better iterations of older films that were pro America and pro masculinity. When people get mad, just smile.
"It wasn't made for you".
Yes. We need that service. Something that is unapologetically pre-2000s. Like white boy summer, the movie.
Nerdiness was social suicide until the late 2000s.
Then the same ppl who mocked you for being a nerd jumped on the bandwagon when it became trendy
Exactly.
And people want us to forgive them.
It reminds me a bit of when I was a kid/teen in the early 2000s, and there were channels, like Spike TV, that were specifically marketed at men. How the times have changed.
Yes! Or if you watch wrestling late 90s/early 00s wrestling was definitely marketed at the male teen/early 20s
Excellent point which is why we should enforce anti-trust laws much more stringently than we currently do.
Very true
Men have the "coolest" things.. if you look at it, all the most trendy nerdy stuff has its origins being a male oriented hobby.
these hobbies wouldn't be cool, trendy nerd stuff we have today if it started out being female oriented or if its male/female mixed oriented.
Women are embraces & enforcers of the current culture. They are not trendsetters in the slightest & will only follow a trend if enough males do. It took nerd hobbies a long time to be ubiquitous among males and that’s when the females showed up.
That's just wanting a very specific audience and doing a not so great job at going about it. You can't fully gatekeep anything no matter how hard you try. Some people just want to be where they're uncomfortable, and then make it about them until everyone else leaves, because they can't make things themselves. We've seen it before in other spaces. This is just someone not understanding the how and why of people, and trying to bridge a gap that was not necessary.
You aren’t wrong but it just boggles my mind that you can’t acknowledge that men and women generally like different things.
Solution: Insist the gender binary doesn't exist, and reverse cause and effect: It isn't that you produce content geared towards men. Rather, those who watch your shows become men.
They definitely do. But try explaining that to those that think they know better. It's as good as giving medication to the dead and expecting results.
They're not trying to make money anymore
Why would you subject yourself to rom-coms?
You can learn a lot about women by observing what media they consume.
Women are very bad at telling you what they want. Many of them don't even consciously know what they want, or they won't admit it because it will make them look shallow. That said, the subconscious doesn't lie, so you can learn a lot about women by simply observing what they like and dislike in popular media.
Guilty pleasure but as a teen I thought they could give me pointers on how to talk to women
"America Chavez"? A wetback with super-powers?
"Chop off your dick, homo! Else you are a faggot!" - Feminists.
I don't get it. You're mad at her for starting a service for a niche and respecting that niche, but then you think if she tried to cater to you, not her niche, it would be absurd ?
What are you even complaining about here ?
I don't think he's complaining about her; he's complaining about our culture's anti-male bias.
I think what she is doing is great. She recognized what that audience likes and caters to them. Sorry I worded it poorly. She is doing the opposite of say Disney who has to know that generally more males watch Star Wars so Disney pushes everything to girls. Same with comic books.
Yet another reason not to trust that rat.
Unless you happen to know any orks, there is no man who would pass such an insane purity test. All men have female relatives, even you.
I'm not sure you understood what my issue was.
She is contributing to the problem that is the over-saturation of entertainment targeting women.
Most mainstream media content targeting women is highly homogenized, "sanitized" and designed to push a political/cultural narrative.
This isn't what women really want. This is why Twilight and 50 Shades were so huge, because they ignored political correctness and just gave women what they actually wanted: cheezy, harlequin-novel style romance. Elon Musk's sister identified this as an unfulfilled niche.