I literally laughed aloud at the end, when they made the comparison of the comments section to the hostile pink ooze.
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Regarding the IMBD rating of movies, I go out of my way to rate poorly anything I don’t enjoy, which is no measure of its artistic merit, it’s based in the notion that things I like and dislike yield me recommendations of more things I will like and dislike. It’s not sexism, it’s just selfishly using MY IMDb account MY way. I’m sure I did down vote SATC, mostly because I find the portrayal of city life to be shallow and materialistic and unreal, not because I dislike people with lady parts. I downvote friends too, and any other show that portrays a museum docent as being able to afford a Manhattan apartment, for example. Or let’s people believe that an affair with their boss might NOT have awful consequences.
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You illustrate why I don’t read any ratings at all. I’ll read review but not ratings. Because I think most people are doing what you’re doing. (I do think its a gender issue, if only that men are more apt or likely to give a rating/opinion online in the first place, hence the skewing we’re seeing.) But number ratings are always just going to be garbage.
Some movies I love don’t have the best ratings, and some movies that have amazing ratings I’ll never see.
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Same thing with Yelp and all other user generated content. Ratings are subjective and barely-even useful in aggregate, but the content and meat of good reviews is actually useful.
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