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?
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 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.
Yeah that's fair.