As a guy, I don't really care about reading what some other guy, no matter how famous he is, has done wrong. Mel Gibson throwing racial slurs around interested me about as much as the mating patterns of flies. But when a female star gets in trouble. like Lindsay Lohan snorting blow or Britney Spears being a horrible parent, then at least there's still the attractiveness of a girl. And yeah, I know how sexist that must sound, but that's the only reason that I can see that girls getting in trouble is way more popular than guys.
So if guys only read or listen or watch that kind of stuff if it's about women, and women will read about either sex because they read to get the dirt on what is going on, then it makes sense that media will fixate on the women because as informative as these mediums are, at the end of the day they are a business. And to make the most money, they need to try and get the largest possible target audience.
Although I'm sure that another reason for this lack of testosterone in the public eye is a little bit of sexism, that word seems to get thrown around alot today. If a woman can't do something as well as a man, its labelled sexist to say so. When the positions are reversed though and a man cannot do something as well as a woman, then its because they aren't as skilled. That kind of pisses me off
But whatever. As long as women starlets keep doing things that can be exploited by the media, then men will be a distant second (or three hundred and fourth as the case may be) place.
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