The point is that your wife is in the minority. The vast majority of people wouldn't consider torrenting, let alone *arrs. People with a greater willingness to tinker and learn technical stuff are the ones who'll consider it, and that group is overwhelmingly composed of men as of right now.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm seeing 3:1 male female from this source, but I figure data collection on torrent users is tricky: https://marketsplash.com/torrent-statistics/

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Anecdotally, that makes sense. If you were to look at piracy overall, however, I wouldn't be surprised if that ratio was closer to 50/50.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Result of gender stereotypes affecting the behaviour of female and male children, so male children grow up to be more encouraged to learn about technology and engage in risk taking behaviour.

Also inclination to risk taking behaviour is much higher in biological men than biological women, which would also give a potential reason why this advertisment works on women but not on men.

As always these attributions only represent the average of the women and men populations as a whole. Ofc. there is risk averse men and tech savvy women.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

The word cis or cisgender is right there my friend. Trans people are still biological, after all.