Does anyone know or what would your best guess be when it comes to the ratio of male/female readers of Sci-Fi/Fantasy? I would think fantasy appeals to more women whereas sci-fi appeals to more guys. I ask because my brother who is out of the nerd loop due to raising teen girls was telling me about an article about N.K. Jemison he read that was hyping her as the biggest name in sci-fi today and he was surprised since he felt she just peddles the usual left wing nonsense in entertainment. I then told him about the sad puppies movement and to avoid modern sci-fi and fantasy like the plague.
I am a huge reader and there are a lot of women who read heavily but like everything certain genres appeal to men more than women and vice versa.
Fiction readership as a whole is 60/40 female/male. No idea of the genre breakdown. Publishing is over 80% female.
What's funny about it is I've personally been told by editors and agents that because the reader audience is 60% female all books must be written and marketed to women first, and that the 40% male demographic doesn't matter.
Meanwhile, the fact that the gaming audience is NINTY FIVE PERCENT MALE (and does 99% of the purchasing--female gamers don't spend their own money) is actually an indictment against us, and proof we need MORE WOMEN IN GAMES because we are "gatekeeping" them. As if every nerd wouldn't do triple backflips to shove a controller into any woman's hands.
Yea I never got that. To this day at age 41 I’d love for a woman I’m dating to be into nerdy stuff or gaming.
Even with the 40% male if you break it down by genres you’ll see that some things appeal to way more guys. Like a Tom Clancy thriller for instance
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