People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.
I launched 'Lightspeed' magazine in 2010, and from day one, we've had a strict mission to try to have gender parity in the magazine because that was the first hurdle that science fiction and fantasy have been dealing with for a long time.
I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.
In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.