Has anyone else noticed how communists, it seems are mostly men, and then there is also a disproportionately high amount of trans-fems? Does anyone have any theories why? How many of you are cis-women and I haven’t noticed?
Has anyone else noticed how communists, it seems are mostly men, and then there is also a disproportionately high amount of trans-fems? Does anyone have any theories why? How many of you are cis-women and I haven’t noticed?
I just assumed this place has a lower-than-average number of Westerners (but probably still a majority because of the site’s Lingua Franca) just because a massive number of Westerners who identify as leftists see the positive depictions of Stalin and the Kims, and the disdain for the US Democratic party, and then they flee.
Just want to say that I greatly appreciate our comrades from outside the U.S. who offer perspectives Amerikans like me are very unlikely to see anywhere else. It is eye opening.
Seconded
I especially appreciate comrades from outside the collective West since they help us break out of the Eurocentrism that infects virtually all anglophone spaces online.
“Lower than average” is definitely what I see, as a Murikkkan. It was honestly what sold me to Marxism-Leninism, seeing its adherents (online but especially IRL) being so overwhelmingly non-Westerners with an actual diversity of race and nationality and economic position etc. I realized that Breadtube-esque Western “Leftism” was the wrong place to be when I realized how many of those mfers were the same rich white American hipsters I had been trying to escape politically my whole life (btw no hate if that applies to the past of anybody reading this, I’m not that far from that myself lol).
Even among westerners I think we have more non-Americans than other websites
I wonder how many of the US/westerners on other websites are ‘real’ people (i.e. bots / feds / one user with multiple accounts) and how much that distorts the picture. (It may still be overwhelmingly US-based, but would it be too the same extent?)