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?
Depends on where you are. Online there are probably more men as that always seems to be the case. But at the party over here, it’s pretty mixed. The youth group I’m setting up, for example, has me as the only male member right now. The rest are women. Women seem to be the biggest group of new members right now, followed by non-white people. White men seem to stay behind when it comes to becoming politically active.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that a party that fights for equality for everyone attracts people that are usually on the receiving end of the stick of the system.
You know I thought that too. I think it stems from mainly from the context of the online format. To be able to have found a website as small as Lemmygrad means you had to have lots of hours active online. Now people being raised female have a standard pushed on them from day one, cleanliness, beauty, and well, socializing. People who are raised male don’t have that immediate standard pushed on, so those who fell into these online spaces are disproportionately raised male. Now that compounded with that socially distant and toxic men have fostered treacherous online spaces for two decades , vast majority of cis women wouldn’t go near it. Now the chances these cis women would be able to stomach reddit enough to find r/GenZedong and then be there to sign up on Lemmygrad pre quarantine is incredibly slim.
Now interestingly enough most communists sympathizers in real life tend to be female–at least from my observations–so its really the form of media that filters into this demographic. Also take note, many Lemmygraduates (thats what we should call those who unlearned their liberalism lol) also have interests or careers in STEM, another heavily raised as male demographic.
Great analysis
Also wonder how many people are from countries like is this place mostly westerns
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?)
Because people post stuff like this without a hint of irony or self awareness.
Fair
