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4th law of robotics

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2. "men are less likely to engage in anxiety and angst driven . . . "
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 11:25 AM
Jul 2012

Would explain why these articles and books and magazines are almost exclusively geared towards a female audience.

Men are being talked about, not spoken to.

Actually that would probably explain the horrible gender stereotypes against men in popular culture (dads being beyond useless, men in general being stupid kids, and so on): it appeals to female fantasies. Men's opinions aren't taken in to account because we don't matter as far as profits are concerned.

Where men do care (video games, certain movie genres, and so on) the slant is very different.

Oddly enough you'll get endless streams of op-eds lamenting the horribly sexist culture of video games but relatively few on the horribly sexist culture of daytime television.

Apparently men being the man target audience in porn, a few movies, and videogames is an outrage when all women have is most magazines, commercials, almost all cable television, and a good chunk of the movies as well.

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