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So last night I found a half-completed statistical analysis of the gender breakdown of ships in dcfic-index.
I do not remember starting this, but despite the fact that I don't think that archive has been updated since about 2008, I finished the analysis anyhow.
So um. Here are some graphs! They might surprise you (but probably not. It's nice to have concrete examples, though).
A note on the data: Most of the time, the archive splits DCU and DCAU; this has been preserved here. The only times I combined categories were where "Jason" and "Red Hood" were listed separately and where "Steph" and "Stephanie" were listed seperately. Other than that, any inaccuracies or duplication are the archive's and not mine. Fics tagged as multiple pairings are counted as multiple stories (it was definitely not worth the effort to correct for this). Averages and percentages are rounded to the nearest hundredth.
34.23% of ships in the archive are M/F; 39.83% are M/M; 13.28% are F/F; 12.66% are poly ships.
Here, poly ships have been removed. 39.19% of pairings are M/F, 45.61% are M/M, and 15.20 are F/F.
Poly ships are back in and they too have been broken down by gender. As before, 34.23% of ships are M/F; 39.83% are M/M; 13.28% are F/F; in addition, 2.7% are F/F/M threesomes; both M/M/F and M/M/M ships make up 4.56%; 0.41% are F/F/F; and 0.21% each are M/M/M/F and M/M/M/F/F.
Same as the previous graph, with number of stories rather than number of ships. Now, 23.46% are M/F; 64.63% are M/M; 7.04% are F/F; 0.50% are F/F/M; 1.63% are M/M/F; 2.77% are M/M/M; 0.07% are F/F/F; 0.03% each are M/M/M/F and M/M/M/F/F
Same as the previous graph, but with the simplified version of the poly ships. Once again, 23.46% are M/F; 64.63% are M/M; 7.04% are F/F; here, 4.87% of all fics feature poly ships.
Of all M/F fic, 25.60% feature one of the five most popular M/F pairings.
39.44% of M/M stories feature one of the five most popular pairings.
55.66% of F/F stories feature one of the five most popular pairings
44.52% of poly stories feature one of the top-five ships.
Average stories per ship across the various gender categories. There are 4.26 stories per M/F ship; 10.09 stories per M/M ship; 3.30 stories per F/F ship; 1.15 stories per F/F/M ship; 2.23 stories per M/M/F ship; 3.77 stories per M/M/M ship; one story per each F/F/F, M/M/M/F, and M/M/M/F/F ship; 2.39 stories per poly ship in general; and a total average of 6.22 stories per ship across the board.
We're getting to two of the most telling graphs here. There are only 81 ships featuring two or more female characters in the archive, compared with 238 ships featuring two or more male characters.
There are 2071 fics featuring a ship with two or more male characters, and only 227 fics featuring a ship with two or more female characters. Nope, no gender bias here, clearly!
The frequency of most common pairing relative to the ship-categories is fairly even across the board, with M/F at 0.23; M/M at 0.15; F/F at 0.18; and poly ships at 0.27.
Now here's that same graph without adjusting for the difference in prevalence between the categories. The most common M/F ships, Babs/Dick and Steph/Tim, are tied at 47 stories each; Tim/Kon has 290 stories; Babs/Dinah has 38 stories; Babs/Dick/Dinah and Cass/Steph/Tim each have 2 stories; Cassie/Kon/Tim has 7 stories; Bart/Kon/Tim has 39 stories, making it by far the most popular poly ship; the existing F/F/F, M/M/M/F, and M/M/M/F/F ships (Babs/Dinah/Helena, Babs/Helena/Zinda, Dick/Jason/Steph/Tim, and Cass/Jason/Kon/Steph/Tim) each have only one story.
Let me say that again: The most popular M/M ship has nearly three hundred stories, and the most popular F/F ship has nearly forty.
Wow.
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I do not remember starting this, but despite the fact that I don't think that archive has been updated since about 2008, I finished the analysis anyhow.
So um. Here are some graphs! They might surprise you (but probably not. It's nice to have concrete examples, though).
A note on the data: Most of the time, the archive splits DCU and DCAU; this has been preserved here. The only times I combined categories were where "Jason" and "Red Hood" were listed separately and where "Steph" and "Stephanie" were listed seperately. Other than that, any inaccuracies or duplication are the archive's and not mine. Fics tagged as multiple pairings are counted as multiple stories (it was definitely not worth the effort to correct for this). Averages and percentages are rounded to the nearest hundredth.
34.23% of ships in the archive are M/F; 39.83% are M/M; 13.28% are F/F; 12.66% are poly ships.
Here, poly ships have been removed. 39.19% of pairings are M/F, 45.61% are M/M, and 15.20 are F/F.
Poly ships are back in and they too have been broken down by gender. As before, 34.23% of ships are M/F; 39.83% are M/M; 13.28% are F/F; in addition, 2.7% are F/F/M threesomes; both M/M/F and M/M/M ships make up 4.56%; 0.41% are F/F/F; and 0.21% each are M/M/M/F and M/M/M/F/F.
Same as the previous graph, with number of stories rather than number of ships. Now, 23.46% are M/F; 64.63% are M/M; 7.04% are F/F; 0.50% are F/F/M; 1.63% are M/M/F; 2.77% are M/M/M; 0.07% are F/F/F; 0.03% each are M/M/M/F and M/M/M/F/F
Same as the previous graph, but with the simplified version of the poly ships. Once again, 23.46% are M/F; 64.63% are M/M; 7.04% are F/F; here, 4.87% of all fics feature poly ships.
Of all M/F fic, 25.60% feature one of the five most popular M/F pairings.
39.44% of M/M stories feature one of the five most popular pairings.
55.66% of F/F stories feature one of the five most popular pairings
44.52% of poly stories feature one of the top-five ships.
Average stories per ship across the various gender categories. There are 4.26 stories per M/F ship; 10.09 stories per M/M ship; 3.30 stories per F/F ship; 1.15 stories per F/F/M ship; 2.23 stories per M/M/F ship; 3.77 stories per M/M/M ship; one story per each F/F/F, M/M/M/F, and M/M/M/F/F ship; 2.39 stories per poly ship in general; and a total average of 6.22 stories per ship across the board.
We're getting to two of the most telling graphs here. There are only 81 ships featuring two or more female characters in the archive, compared with 238 ships featuring two or more male characters.
There are 2071 fics featuring a ship with two or more male characters, and only 227 fics featuring a ship with two or more female characters. Nope, no gender bias here, clearly!
The frequency of most common pairing relative to the ship-categories is fairly even across the board, with M/F at 0.23; M/M at 0.15; F/F at 0.18; and poly ships at 0.27.
Now here's that same graph without adjusting for the difference in prevalence between the categories. The most common M/F ships, Babs/Dick and Steph/Tim, are tied at 47 stories each; Tim/Kon has 290 stories; Babs/Dinah has 38 stories; Babs/Dick/Dinah and Cass/Steph/Tim each have 2 stories; Cassie/Kon/Tim has 7 stories; Bart/Kon/Tim has 39 stories, making it by far the most popular poly ship; the existing F/F/F, M/M/M/F, and M/M/M/F/F ships (Babs/Dinah/Helena, Babs/Helena/Zinda, Dick/Jason/Steph/Tim, and Cass/Jason/Kon/Steph/Tim) each have only one story.
Let me say that again: The most popular M/M ship has nearly three hundred stories, and the most popular F/F ship has nearly forty.
Wow.
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