ADMIN: List Elf Email Addresses

[abigailnus]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" <tim_regan82 at h...> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Kelley Elf recently sent out a useful set of email addresses of the 
> current and the pending list elves. Although it's hard to guess sex 
> from pseudonym (no matter what I do, I cannot stop thinking of 
> GlumPlum as a woman, though he isn't) it looks as if only 1 of the 
> 28 elves listed is a man. That's less than 4%. Has that always been 
> the proportion? Is it representative of the membership? 

Not that I have actual numbers or anything, but just looking at the 
posters on Main, it's clear that most HPfGU members are female.  That's 
been the case for as long as I can remember.  This is clearly not the 
pattern for fandom in general.  Hardcore SF fandom and a lot of fantasy 
fandom (LOTR, D&D, etc.) tends to skew towards male audiences.  Most 
TV fandoms that I'm aware of are fairly evenly split between the genders.

The one thing that might explain it is the fact that HPfGU, and HP fandom 
in general, tends to have a large overlap with fanfic circles, and fanfic is 
written (and read?) predominantly by women.  

Abigail

P.S. We could have a fascinating discussion about the demographics of HP 
fandom and the reasons for them, but may I suggest that if we do, we move 
it to OTC?