Sunday, 26 July 2015

Geena Davis Stats

Characters in family films wearing sexy attire:

Men - 8%
Women - 28.3%

  • Smaller percentage - get away with it easier 
  • Considered normal 


Characters with thin bodies in Prime-time shows:

Men - 13.6%
Women - 37.5%
  • Modern family stereotypes:
    • Cam - typical gay guy - the arts, dramatic  
    • Stereotype homosexuals 
    • Gloria & Jay - young vs old
    • Phil & Claire - good cop vs bad cop
    • Phil - fun dad
    • Claire - strict, uptight mum 
Percentage of speaking characters in prime-time comedians by gender:

Men - 68.5%
Women - 31.5%
  • Dominance of males in today's society
  • Women should be seen and not heard
22% of prime-time shows with gender-balanced casts:
  • Phoebe - Stupid, blonde, vegetarian 
  • Rachel - Dumb, rich, spoilt
  • Chandler- awkward
  • Monica - chef, fat growing up - she lost all the weight because someone bullied her.
  • Ross- Nerd, obsessed with dinosaurs, failed relationships
  • Joey - dumb actor, player - "How you doin'?"
Ratio of male to female characters in children TV shows:
2.25:1
  • Grow up with a false representation of the world
  • Men are superior
  • Females are not relevant 
  • Men are shown as the hero, women need to rescued - main purpose of them in tv shows
  • Tv shows follow the heroes journey 
Percentage of family films with a male narrator:
73.5%
  • Men know everything 
  • strong, easy to listen to voice
  • Morgan Freeman 
  • Authoritative 

The percentage of black characters in prime-time shows that are male or females
Men - 54.7%
Women - 45.3%
  • Men are more dominant than men
    The statistics tells us that women are:

    • Insignificant to the media
    • Easy to sexualise
    • Less authoritative than men
    • Dumb, spoilt

    No comments:

    Post a Comment