• w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    I haven’t seen the show yet so I can’t speak to whether it’s good or not, but I do know some statistics about movie reviewers.

    Something like 70% of reviewers/critics are male and they account for 75% of all reviews. 73% of male critics are white.

    Of the remaining 30% of female critics, 70% are white.

    When reviewing movies with a male protagonist, female critics, give average ratings of 73% while male critics award the same movies an average of 70%.

    On movies with a female protagonist, female critics give an average rating of 74% versus male critics who rate these movies with an average of 62%.

    The gaps are just as bad when it comes to race.

    TLDR- White men make up 70% of reviews and rate movies with female leads significantly worse than female reviewers.

    If you want to learn more, here are some great resources with a variety of research on equality in media.

    https://womeninfilm.org/ https://geenadavisinstitute.org/ https://annenberg.usc.edu/research https://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/research/