Quoted from russdx:Also who cares if it’s just a bunch of white guys sadly that’s the demographic of this hobby, if you have to chuck some women in there just for political correctness that’s just really sad.
Where are you getting your demographic data from? I use Facebook analytics to track things like gender and age of people who are interested in our pinball show page and who say they will be attending on the FB invite, it helps me better target my ad buys for the show, and women are a healthy number of the people clicking into pinball news and events. In some age brackets nearing 30-40%. Locally I see that backed up in the demographics of the bar league teams, ladies pinball tournaments, and mixed tournaments. I think it's naive to think political correctness would drive the desire to include women, for the savvy business person I'd think the driving factors would be increasing your audience and market share with a group of people you know are active in pinball and receptive to the content. While I'd agree with you if you were talking about the home buyer market of new pinball machines, that is mostly older white guys, but pinball media should go for a larger market than the manufacturers, they should go after the players, not just the collectors. If you participate in leagues, tournaments, bar nights, go to barcades and attend pinball shows, you'd realize the women are a sizable demographic of pinball players and one that's growing. When you are selling a product, you look for where the market is growing and try to cater to that growing sector if you want to make money.
