Originally Posted by mgvsmith:
“Theoretically and anecdotally it's true that 'nothing is for everyone' but one 'fact' I have drawn from these threads is that female artists receive at least twice the amount of negative threads that male artists do.
Jessie J, Cheryl Cole, Celine Dion, Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé, Rita Ora have all been the source of negatively posed threads whilst you could only say 1D and Gary Barlow have had negatively posed threads in the same amount of space (about the last 7 pages of threads). That's a 7-2 ratio. Yours above is 7-3.
This suggests to me that posters here are more likely to see a female artist in a negative light than a male one. That's a working theory rather than a fact but I have strong feeling that this biased view of female artists is more prevalent than many would believe.
The OP may be on to something.”
I think you're right, however I believe that female artists (generally chart-friendly pop stars) tend to have more threads created about them than male, whether positive OR negative. The chaps don't seem to be swinging it - either with the British public or else the contributors here and I don't take enough notice of the mainstream any more to know whether it's a DS forum thing or a wider phenomenon.
I do feel that most of these charting pop stars are rather marmite; often not especially talented and easy to criticise. When they combine huge success with 'annoying behaviour' they seem to come under harder scrutiny than say rock musicians who seem to have a free pass to do pretty much as they please because they pick up guitars and are more credible with the hipsters.
I think bad behaviour in a woman is still more taboo than in a male who will simply be branded a 'bad-boy' and hence; desirable. The press panders to these ideas too.
Having said that I seem to hear more people deridng Kanye West on personality that any other contemporary artist.
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