Coltan Scrivner

There's less chance of actual damage happening to you.

But you can also fake it, right?

If you can make yourself look bigger, look larger, then you're going to have a better chance of scaring off the other people.

And so, yeah, humans do that all the time in cultural ways, right?

One example is lifting your truck or making it look like you can handle something bigger and larger than what it needs to be.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think people are often surprised by that.

But if you look at the demographics, women like horror just as much as men.

And when it comes to examples of sort of real life horror, like true crime, they are huge consumers of that, even more so than men.

Yeah.

With documentaries, it's still more.

It's probably 60 to 70 percent.

And that's interesting with podcasts, because I think men are a little more likely to listen to just podcasts in general.

Right.

Definitely.

The first thing that I found when I started looking into the literature on this, okay, nobody has really studied this, but surely people have talked about this.

So one of the examples I found was Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, who are two of the most famous film critics of all time.

And they had a TV show in the 80s where they would essentially review movies.

Yeah, Sneak Previews was on for, I don't know, a couple seasons at least.

And they had dedicated one entire episode to what they called women in danger films.