BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / MEMBERS POLL: Male or Female?

**Posted by AliceI** February 21, 2013 10:03 pm

Jayhan wrote:
Wow, that's a lot of girls... XD

This is just a theory, but it seems to make sense to me. I believe that most fan fiction authors and fan forum members are women/girls because women tend to discuss things more than men do typically. Women will talk a subject to death trying to ferret out every possible angle where men tend to be more hands on, or action oriented. Act first ask later as it were.

Now before anyone jumps all over me for making blanket statements - this is just a theory, but one that does seem to have validity to it. I say that because this does seem to be the typical behavior that I have observed over the years between men and women.

**Posted by Doctor_Watson's_Girl** March 12, 2013 11:34 pm

Ha ha makes you wonder why it is mainly girls that are here lol

**Posted by besleybean** March 13, 2013 6:52 am

I'm guessing it's to do with biological statistics!

**Posted by Mary Me** March 13, 2013 6:55 am

Doctor_Watson's_Girl wrote:
Ha ha makes you wonder why it is mainly girls that are here lol

It's because girls have ovaries.

**Posted by besleybean** March 13, 2013 6:57 am

Exactly this, well, partly this!

**Posted by Be** March 15, 2013 10:30 am

The problem which this kind of polls is that it only tells us about the people who answer it.
Actually: We don't know about all members in the forum. Probably it's just that more females take part in the poll.
But it is a hint.

**Posted by SusiGo** March 21, 2013 6:59 am

Well … I think the male actors may have a certain influence on the success of the show. But of course women are generally very intellectual and appreciate the overall brilliance of Sherlock. On the other hand it might be possible that women just tend to be more active and outspoken regarding their preferences in TV, music, books, etc. and use the Internet as a means to communicate about those things.

**Posted by ancientsgate** March 23, 2013 5:24 am

SherlockHound wrote:
I'm trying to think what this says about men that this is a far more popular series with women... o.O Is it because women are generally more intellectual? Or a draw to the male lead roles?

I watch for the plot *whistles softly and looks around* Not the gorgeous men, no sir, not me. Ahem.

But anyway, I think there are more women here because women like to TALK, even if all we're talking with is the ends of our fingers. We want to connect, chat about the things we love, do some fangirl flailing about the gorgeous men, etc. My theory of why there are so relatively few men here. ???

**Posted by Punch me in the face** May 16, 2013 8:07 pm

Geez, and there was me thinking that Sherlock fandom had more guys than the SPN one... you bet!

Anyway, female. Last time I checked.

**Posted by Consulting_Dectective1012** June 28, 2013 8:13 pm

female Sherlockians for the win!!

**Posted by Ginger** July 1, 2013 1:04 pm

Well, it's hard to say, but I was a famale last time I checked.

It's actually no suprise that there is more famales than males on the forum - girls like to talk much more than guys, like to share their interests with anyone who wants to listen That's just the thing we've got.

So I see I'm just another one sherlocked woman in here...

**Posted by Chiblits** July 3, 2013 8:41 am

I believe Sherlock Holmes brings all the girls to the yard...Scotland Yard that is XD

**Posted by Savoureux** July 3, 2013 5:42 pm

And one more girl !

**Posted by DitzyDamnDaffy** August 8, 2013 12:39 am

Female. Wow, that's a large percentage of females here...

Chiblits wrote:
I believe Sherlock Holmes brings all the girls to the yard...Scotland Yard that is XD

And he's like, "I'm smarter than you."

Unrelated note, Savoureux, I love your icon. I'm on the season finale of Hannibal at the moment, and it's fantastic.

Last edited by DitzyDamnDaffy (August 8, 2013 12:41 am)

**Posted by Microsoft Holmes** August 10, 2013 11:56 am

I'm a male.

**Posted by Jonquille** August 10, 2013 12:17 pm

One more lady here !

Women sure like speaking about anything, as for example about a sexy-brainy-Sherlock.

**Posted by gently69** November 19, 2013 2:34 pm

and another female.

**Posted by tonnaree** November 19, 2013 3:31 pm

For some reason I never ran across this thread before.

In case I've not made it glaringly obvious, I'm female.

**Posted by Criosdan** November 29, 2013 9:24 am

Female here.

**Posted by silverblaze** December 4, 2013 4:28 pm

I don't think it's just because of the forum, I think there are genually more female than male fans. When you watch the comicon appearances of the Moftiss, it's pretty much all girls. There's an interview somewhere in which Moffat addresses the fans as fanboys. Makes me giggle every time. (Sure he's wiser now.)
I wonder why though. As far as I see, it would have appeal for both sexes equally, it's got a lot of boy stuff and procedurals never have a particular female audience as far as I'm aware. Maybe it's that women can get way more obsessed, but even that isn't true. Shows like Startrek seem to have an obsessed male audience.
So maybe it's just the cheekbones .