Include more women on your team - lessen the male bias. Don't use stereotypical terms like "chick flicks" to trivialize types of movies
"Chick flicks" as a category? Inherent negative bias makes it appear that the movies are automatically shallow. I find the terminology patronizing.
I understand and fundamentally agree with your concern. However, tags are contributed by the community, not our team. We currently do not have any mechanism or policy for censoring tags. Suggestions?
FYI, you can flag tags as “bad”, which will make them less likely to show up to subsequent users.
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Pedro Abreu commented
chick flicks was always a category. i´m a guy and I enjoy them =) it´s a real sub-genre.
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Anonymous commented
Wow! I have not seen "chick flicks" as a movie genre, but I found there is a "chick flick" tag. To play "devil's advocate" I do not think the existence of tags in general is responsibility of grouplens but the community, in general. Yet I think there must be a moderator somewhere.
The movie industry is male dominated and we accept as normal ideas that are full of prejudice. Yes, we need more women in positions where decisions are made.