Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  These will always be challenging topics for sure :-)

  I love a bit of statistics to be honest. If you look at general web use of men versus women, it’s actually fairly close: 65 percent of women are online, versus 70 percent of men.

  statista.com/…/share-of-internet-users-worldwide-…

  There are obviously some discrepancies to be found, for example in less developed countries, women are online a lot less.

  If you look at platforms, men certainly are a majority on all of them - which makes sense, since we obviously outnumber women outline in general. But the gap tends to be smaller than most tend to think.

  For example, Facebook is 43 percent women, 56 percent men. Reddit is around 65 percent male.

  adamconnell.me/reddit-statistics/#%3A~%3Atext=Lik….

  Now, Lemmy might be a bit more niche which attracts a bit more men. But I imagine women will certainly be more than 6 percent here if we did a proper, honest platformwide survey.

  I imagine the male-centric feel of these platforms is more determined by amount of posting and engagement. If men outpost women 2 to 1 for example, it’s going to feel way more like a guy place. I also imagine many women don’t feel like pointing out that they are women for obvious reasons, further skewing our perception. We think the person on the other end is male, and since they post nothing to the contrary, our assumption must be correct. Even if it isn’t.

  I’d certainly love it if women felt safe enough to share their perspective without fear of being harassed. Even if it’s only 1 in 100 men doing it, it only takes 1 to ruin your day I imagine…

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