I thought I’d try an experiment: Take 40 female characters, type “[character] is” into Google, observe top autocomplete result. Then do the same for men. Then: graphic.
This is the most casual of casual studies and definitely shouldn’t be taken as any sort of Proper Data, but on the surface I find the results…interesting. And pretty much what I expected re: sexism and racism.
Google’s autocomplete is, according to them themselves, “a reflection of the search activity of users and the content of web pages” but I’ve heard Google has some other complex algorithms that take your own search history (and other things) into account. So I’d be very curious to know if everyone gets the same results when they try the search terms. (Especially since I imagine they change pretty fast.) Please tell me whatever you find out! I’d love for this to expand, especially since I don’t have that wide a knowledge of popular characters anyway, this is mostly just the ones I see on my dash on a regular basis.
One more note: you get different results depending on whether you used a character’s full name/title or not. For example, ‘snape is’ and ‘severus snape is’ give totally different things. Hit me up if you want a list of the exact terms I used!