Gilligan claims that girls prefer consensus and boys prefer hierarchy, but that growing up is a process of learning to "get" the other gender's comfort zone. Girls want popualrity and boys want status, and that drives their behavior. I remember when I was teaching, a soccer coach, who had switched to the girl's team for the term, was FLOORED that several girls wanted to switch out of the "A" (better) team because their friends hadn't made it in. In 18 years of coaching boys the same age, that had never happened.

I think these differences are socialized and hopefully grow less limiting over time.

I interpreted it as if she was asked the question, "why is it that women lead this campaign?"

From the segue, it would seem the most natural thing would be for it to explain why women were sending their underwear to a third party.

Except -- men don't wear bras, and the message delivered by used boxers is completely unproductive. So that can't have been the question.

From there, I expanded it all the way out to "Why do women save shows?" Which is a judgement call on my part, but I got no other reason to stop at any point inbetween. The bit where you're assuming the answer isn't to "why is it that women lead this campaign?" but to an unspecified follow on question to an answer we didn't get -- way more work than my brain is comfortable with doing on someone else's work.

I spent a lot of time on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 back in the day, and my impression was that it was mostly male and certainly shaped by JMS's pretty much daily participation. The fact that internet-based fandom seems to have become largely female is interesting to me, in that old school sf fandom certainly had more men than women.

And as far as I know, B5 never had the fanfic presence that either Trek or X-Files did/does.

Girls want popualrity and boys want status, and that drives their behavior.

adds another notch to the "factoids I learned online that define me as male" checklist.

but to an unspecified follow on question to an answer we didn't get -- way more work than my brain is comfortable with doing on someone else's work.

I used my "Jump to Conclusions" mat. /Office Space

I thinkl these differences are socialized and hopefully grow less limiting over time.

I'm not sure if that's true, or an echo of survival programming from Clan o' da Cavebear days.

And as far as I know, B5 never had the fanfic presence that either Trek or X-Files did/does.

How integral is fanfic to fandom? It's sort of part of my assumption -- not that you have to necessarily create or consume to be part of fandom, but it's a room in the house.

Could the lack of presense in fandom of the XY be related to the increased importance of fanfic?

As it, that's what's female dominated, and either overshadowed or drove out the manfolk?

Me, I want a nap. As well as loose shoes and a warm place to sleep.

adds another notch to the "factoids I learned online that define me as male" checklist.

I'm a status whore. I freely admit it. I want to be King of the Mountain. But, I know not the way.

Unfortunately, I forget.

Metonymy. Or possibly Synecdoche.

eta: okay, the latter.

Main Entry: syn·ec·do·che : a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)