I think there are some varied skews here. It seems that we do well on representation of trans people generally and queer women relative to the total number of women, but not on queer men relative to the number of men. I think there are probably more political queer men (rejection of gay/straight binary sort of thing) than in most communities, but not many men who regularly sleep or seek to sleep with men. I know I was in the community for years before meeting one.
So yes, I think the skew is toward straight, white dudes, and I’ll say I do find the machismo off-putting even as a fairly straight-passing gay man.
Hmm. Maybe EA is more inclusively representated on the sexual dimension. I’d hadn’t really noticed this either way, and more typed this out of habit. I stick by there being an oddly high number of white dudes though.
If you aren’t going to defend the claim made in the original comment, I would suggest that it would be good practise to edit the word “straight” out of the comment. There are a lot of Cached Thoughts on both sides of the debate and I would like to encourage people to break out of them.
What evidence causes you to think that heterosexuality is overrepresented in EA? That seems backwards to me.
I believe sexuality is a demographic we do well on.
We also have way more trans women than society at large.
I think there are some varied skews here. It seems that we do well on representation of trans people generally and queer women relative to the total number of women, but not on queer men relative to the number of men. I think there are probably more political queer men (rejection of gay/straight binary sort of thing) than in most communities, but not many men who regularly sleep or seek to sleep with men. I know I was in the community for years before meeting one.
So yes, I think the skew is toward straight, white dudes, and I’ll say I do find the machismo off-putting even as a fairly straight-passing gay man.
Hmm. Maybe EA is more inclusively representated on the sexual dimension. I’d hadn’t really noticed this either way, and more typed this out of habit. I stick by there being an oddly high number of white dudes though.
If you aren’t going to defend the claim made in the original comment, I would suggest that it would be good practise to edit the word “straight” out of the comment. There are a lot of Cached Thoughts on both sides of the debate and I would like to encourage people to break out of them.
okay. point taken