Saw a post over at Yawning Bread where he shared about how males seem to fare better in talent contests. This was something I noticed too. The theory I had then was this - Guys naturally tend to support the female contestants. Girls tend to support the males. Even if a show might have an equal number of guys and girls following and both a male contestant and female contestant have the same number of fans, the voting numbers are still probably going to be skewed towards female voters. Why? Girls bother to take action to show their support. Guys not so much even if they really think the girl has talent or just plain hot.
Another theory I had was that a male contestant would probably appeal to both sexes while female contestants might appeal mainly to males. In other words, if a male and female were equally talented and visually appealing and there were the same number of male and female viewers of the contest, a guy would have more chance in poaching the male support of a female contestant versus the female poaching the female support of a male contestant. Why? I have no statistics to back this up, but I get the feeling that female viewers in Singapore get threatened by seeing another female who is successful on a contest while male viewers not so much when they see another male doing well.
Not saying that guys are never threatened by the success of another guy or other guys for that matter. It is just that our zone is smaller. If you’re not in my immediate ’sphere of influence’ then I won’t care so much (though
Well, I’m not much of a sociologist or psychologist so these are just random theories with nothing to substantiate them.
Maybe someone knows why exactly male contestants tend to do better in Singapore?
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