At least online, anonymity plays a part, but the discussions seem to have a lot of masculine energy to them. Is it maybe also like music, chess, or comedy where socialization plays a role in the male dominance?

I remember 60% of Bernie's constituency was female, but it doesn't seem to translate online. How can we work to attract more women to the movement?

    • the_river_cass [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I think their point was that the OP used it as an adjective, not a noun. all your examples involve using the term as a noun rather than as an adjective in a noun phrase. "female leftists" rather than "females". the issue for me is that it's reductive on sex and the question should really be about non-cis-dudes.

            • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              Removed my bad comment

              Edit: I'm going to stop here because it's probably not my place as a man to argue with a woman about what's feminist. I'm going to take some time to reflect about if I'm doing a good job in regards to gender in the way I communicate online. I think I need to do better. Sorry for being obstinate and defensive.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        the question should really be about non-cis-dudes.

        But there are lots of trans women and NBs here compared to most not explicitly LGBTQ spaces. On the other hand there are very very few cis women and trans men, if I remember correctly combined they were less than the trans women on the sub. It has to do with what you said, AMAB people were socialised as dudes so they participate more in male oriented spaces as opposed to AFAB.

        I know a lot of the humour here is off putting to many women and especially cis women. It's just the result of being very underrepresented. I've posted about it again, what with the whole "white women lmao" stuff and the male genitalia stuff.

        • the_river_cass [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          the socialization comment was about why people self-select different platforms. this place is also off-putting to trans women, we just have more practice dealing with it. making the space more welcoming to women will help both cis and trans women feel more comfortable. I can't really speak for trans men here.