- "Oregon Woman Loses 400k to scam" -- Although it's a story about a woman, I suspect that the vast majority of the 552 current comments are from men, making rude, arrogant, or demeaning comments. Men braying like jackasses and cracking puerile jokes about how dumb someone (a woman) is? What's not to love?
- "First Look at Johnny Depp" -- Skews female
- "New honeycomb tire is 'bulletproof'" -- A story about car/bike technology and guns/bullets. Not to feed any stereotypes here, fellas, but that positively reeks of testosterone.
- "If TV Shows Had Truthful Titles" -- Sophomoric snark on the Internet can amuse both sexes, but tends to skew male. Perhaps because sophomoric snark in general skews male. No offense intended.
- "Top 10 Unfortunate Political One-Liners" -- Obsessing over political minutiae/sophomoric snark again, combined with a bit of political trivia? See above. Or do you think that the relentless Ron Paul stories were also being constantly up-voted by an enraptured female audience glued to whatever new tidbit was coming from his camp?
- "Phil Gramm Has No Remorse Over Destroying the US Economy" -- See above. This is a story that could be appealing to both men and women, but the puerile slant to it makes it slightly less interesting to women, or so I've tended to notice. Just like in Real Life, your hilarious political jokes just AREN'T THAT FUNNY to most girls, y'know?
- "Chinese pirates crack Blu-ray DRM, sell pirated HD discs" -- DRM nerd porn. There's no reason why this wouldn't appeal to women, but by and large, the tone and thrust of the article greatly narrows its (male) audience.
- "30 Rare & Expensive Gamecube Games" -- Skews both older and to a more rarefied hardcore/distinguishing gamer audience. Which is largely male. If it said 'best Wii games' for instance, it wouldn't be so male-centric.
- "New MythTV Interface Preview" -- Nerd porn. See above.
- "Mark Cuban charged with insider trading." -- Nerd-slash-financial-slash-sports porn.
Cue the inevitable comments how you're a woman and those stories totally appeal to you. :-)
Most women I know are far more into snarky commentary/comedy than I am, and are very interested in politics, the economy, and way more into tv than I am, etc...
Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian E-Mail Scam First Look at Johnny Depp- Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland New honeycomb tire is 'bulletproof' If TV Shows Had Truthful Titles Phil Gramm Has No Remorse Over Destroying the US Economy Chinese pirates crack Blu-ray DRM, sell pirated HD discs Top 10 Unfortunate Political One-Liners 30 Rare & Expensive Gamecube Games New MythTV Interface Preview Mark Cuban charged with insider trading.
Anyone see a male bias there? The Johnny Depp article would actually tip the scales to the female side in my opinion.