>Female characters in Game of Thrones speak about three times less than male characters in the show, according to new data given to BBC 100 Women.
>Although the hugely popular show ended this week after eight seasons, the debate on how it represented women will continue.
>The data by research group Ceretai suggests that across all eight seasons, male speech amounts to about 75% of all speaking time in the series.
>The share of female speaking time varied between seasons, starting at about a quarter in season one and rising slightly to a third by season seven. However, the final season, which saw many female characters at the forefront of the plot, was among the worst for female speaking time.
>Swedish start-up that uses machine learning to analyse diversity in popular culture. Sweden yes. Wonder if BBC are going to mandate talking quotas too.
Robert Watson
Why is it a problem?
Matthew Martin
Because horrible female representation leads to a worse show. You can either have 50% of the characters be good or 100%, why wouldn’t you choose 100%
Jaxon Richardson
Have they considered it might be because it's a fucking medieval setting where men and women are not equal in the slightest?
Mason White
>horrible female representation leads to a worse show Why? Why do you assume gender has anything to do with the quality of the show. Are you sexist? I hope not, user. This is 2019. We live in a post-gender world now. I think you should really focus on *claps* PEOPLE *claps* - not on "man or woman". A bit narrow minded. Persons are more than their "gender" you know. You know?
Oliver Lewis
Diversity is the new religion of lefties. And they're more fundamental and stricter than fucking Catholics in the middle ages.
Grayson Harris
The UK just banned straws, so probably soon
David Johnson
>women need to have 50% of the dialogue, 50% of the screen time and 50% of presentation on screen! >the plot? Doesn’t matter, write the plot around this criteria, it’s the only way to defeat the patriarchy
Nicholas Reyes
further proof that they're /ourjews/
Thomas Martin
Fuck niggers and roasties
Christian Harris
No one wants to hear those women when you have kino actors like these.
It's weird how in the show, Robb has dark hair and Theon is a bit of a redhead, when in the book, it's vice versa.
Ryan Turner
>Swedish start-up that uses machine learning to analyse diversity in popular culture. how do they sell this to investors? what use would this shit have?
Angel Jones
Would John Carpenter's the thing be considered problematic today?
Thomas Robinson
>banned straws So they can say they're not grasping at them?
Thomas Adams
Are you fucking daft? If half the characters are women, and they’re all shit, how could that be a good show. Instead make all the characters good.
Inb4 hurr durr a good female chartur sjws at it again.
Zachary Kelly
ROASTIES HOLES LITERALLY BTFO FROM TOO MUCH SEX LMFAO
Cersei was a good character for most of the show. But she is evil so she doesn't count in your agenda, right?
Thomas Cruz
his wife was alright
Alexander Anderson
You have to go back.
Jason Parker
I would have been totally fine with that gap being filled entirely with based Dany speeches.
I amagine certain individuals would not have approved.
Easton Cox
Hurr durr if a character has few lines, they're a bad character. Who's Hannibal Lecter btw?
Hunter Cooper
>kino actors >hot pie >Ed Shereen
Jonathan Reed
they werent the ones at the forefront of the plot if they didnt have much speaking time then were they?
Alexander Wood
ITT we imagine best GoT moments, but replaced with women
> Chaos is a catwalk, baby; you just gotta WORK it!
Jaxson Garcia
>best moments >cringeworthy KAOS IS LIKE LADDAH No
James Hill
This just seems like capitalizing on the shitting on GoT meme when there will inevitably be worse offenders with poor representation, probably with more justifiable reasons than proportions of speaking time.
Considering the fact that there are more male characters in the show, a large portion of whom are playing wordy political roles, this isn't particularly surprising.
Focusing on such raw representation seems incredibly stupid given how the series is famed for creating several well-loved female characters with a relatively satisfying character arc.
Michael Reed
But even then
Brienne>any other female character
Joshua Lopez
>this is news now
welcome to clown world i guess
Xavier Myers
>ITT we imagine best GoT moments, but replaced with women >> Chaos is a catwalk, baby; you just gotta WORK it! For women it would be "vaginas are a ladder".
(For the dense: they sleep their way to the top)
Gabriel Murphy
They're not wrong. If you want a top tier sneed rant on what exactly went wrong with GoT, listen to this guy for one hour: youtube.com/watch?v=OWEyUWZUh78&list=WL
Zachary Ward
They probably didn't want the audience to confuse who the adopted kid was.
Easton Ross
Interesting, Missandei spoke more than Samwell.
Carson Brooks
because she's the future
Tyler Hernandez
Just assuming genders now are we?
James Flores
the amount of speaking lines a gender has is not an indication of a good or bad character.
Oliver Myers
But she is dead.
Christopher Gonzalez
It wouldn't even have made it off the writing table because it doesn't show the monster.
Carson James
What about the trans folk? What percentage would make it not problematic?
Charles Roberts
But they do, not the original form but we do see it.
Anthony Turner
Gilly had more lines than Sam. Let that sink in.
Angel Sullivan
The thing that made me raise an eyebrow, is that female characters had a lot more screentime than dialogue. It's noted near the end of the article. That seems rather disproportionate. They can be seen more than heard.
Brayden Stewart
>How much do women speak in the show? Too much.
Zachary King
It was more like 98% male speaking time in relevant medieval history so they should be thankful
Matthew Anderson
That doesn't even sound possible. That only makes me doubt the accuracy of their research.
Zachary Butler
Males will always have more screen time if the show follows specific characters and 1 of them just so happens to join an all male militia. Nightswatch only girl character was Gilly and she came pretty late.
The show also had few female warlords so there was that too. Pretty sure almost 80% of all female dialogue was Cersei and Danny.
