Thursday, February 2, 2012

How can we make the game show "Jeopardy" less sexist?

TOP PREVIOUS REGULAR "JEOPARDY!" WINNERS . . .: Keeping in mind that the show recently doubled the value of questions and stopped limiting champions to five days of competition:



1. Tom Walsh $184,900

2. Brian Weikle $149,200

3. Arthur Gandolfi $137,300

4. Sean Ryan $123,797

5. Chris Miller $123,597



The top 6 winners have all been male. How can we change this.



A) Females do not lose money for incorrect answers

B) Allow females to answer first

C) Fire Alex Tribeck and have Harriet Harman write the questions and run the show.



With females recieving more degrees, Jeopardy must be sexist.



Together, we can fix this insult.How can we make the game show "Jeopardy" less sexist?
Ha. I rule at Jeopardy. If their entrance test for the college competition wasn't all about U.S. geography, I would have taken any of those guys on.
come on, that's more than unfair. I'd appreciate it if you didn't take shots at AMERICA.

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How can we make the game show "Jeopardy" less sexist?
Replace all sports questions (which I can never answer) with top 40 hits questions and Desperate Housewives questions (which I also would not be able to answer).



I rock on the mythology, literature and history type qustions, big surprise there!
Where's Ken Jennings?



I think your info might be outdated...How can we make the game show "Jeopardy" less sexist?
with all due respect, intelligence has nothing to do with one's sex. The most recent winners may be male but i'm sure they have worked just as hard as anyone else.



did you hint a bit of sarcasm in the question
The person that posed the question is phishing. His question, in of itself, is an insult to women in general.
The same way we make all of society less sexist: by addressing the culture which drives men and women to different levels of competitiveness, ambition, and achievement, instead of simply fiddling with the numbers and payouts after the damage has already been done (or worse, pretending that the problem doesn't exist, or that it isn't a problem - an approach that seems to appeal to feminists and misogynists alike).



You want a girl to become a scientist, you do that by teaching her the value of competition, intelligence, integrity and curiosity when she's 5, you don't do it by showering her with college cash when she's 20. Same goes for all the other places where women continue to fall behind the curve.
Men tend to be more confident than women, therefore are more likely to enter these kind of things in the first place. Women will under-estimate their abilities where men over-estimate theirs, and other men and women reinforce this.

As for Jeopardy - I presume it is some kind of game show - I have never seen it. You could just as well ask it about Millionaire, a few times they even had an all women show because women were so under-represented.

Seems a very trivial thing to get the hump about.
Well it's clear discrimination.



Just like every other time men come out on top.



The feminist freedom fighters need to storm the Jeopardy set and DEMAND preferencial treatment and "women-only" perks.



Every time men excel over women it represents discrimination. Every single time.



Men are never better at anything for any reason or for any biological predisposition.



Women?



Oh sure... they have plenty of innate abilities that men don't have. Multitasking, nurturing, communication skills, etc.



Men?



Nope.



...Just women.
Lol I like the sarcasm, nice work! One of the better sarcastic questions I have seen in a while! :D
And the point of this question is???
Why don't they just make the questions easier and then the women will be able to score higher and get more money.



The colleges seem to be doing this for the minorities with success, so maybe Jeopardy should consider the same.



Isn't that what affirmative action is all about? ...helping people who don't have as much knowledge to succeed.
Well their contestant screening process has sure changed. It used to be 2 men and 1 woman but now it is usually 2 women and 1 man.



Or maybe it is just because men are getting dumber.
Every question should be about emotions and/or chocolate. That will do the trick!
It shouldn't be changed. Men must waste their time learning trivia crap.

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