Im not talking about the theatre Im talking about the amount of hours spent watching movies, damn I nearly said this and wish I had
Give me a break.
I will concede that I know more men who are on the extreme end of movie consumption (like 2-3 movies per day), but by the same token I know more men who watch almost no movies, usually because they prefer sports to TV/film.
There's a BLS report about TV watching time, but it rolls film, television, and sports together. Still,
Overall, men spent more time watching TV than women did. Men averaged about 3 hours per day watching TV, and women averaged 2 hours 34 minutes per day.
I haven't been able to find anything that suggests a huge disparity between men and women in terms of movie consumption.
Big co-sign. The disparity on forums is very noticeable, particularly given that it's not at all reflected among actual movie watchers.
I think that disparity carries across most topics, too, so I'm inclined to think that it has more to do with the medium than it does with the topic. There's also a self-perpetuating thing where if something is a bit more dominated by one gender, that itself attracts or repels the majority and minority genders, respectively, so that it reinforces. What might start as a 60/40 split for whatever benign reason might, over time, become an 80/20 by self-reinforcing.
I think that disparity carries across most topics, too, so I'm inclined to think that it has more to do with the medium than it does with the topic. There's also a self-perpetuating thing where if something is a bit more dominated by one gender, that itself attracts or repels the majority and minority genders, respectively, so that it reinforces. What might start as a 60/40 split for whatever benign reason might, over time, become an 80/20 by self-reinforcing.
Then again, while I know a lot of women who watch movies regularly, I think I'm the only person in my friend group who is actually registered on any movie sites.