Gender Balance on Social Networking sites

jrockway · on Oct 3, 2009

Hacker News: "♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂♂ M 99.9%"

bd · on Oct 4, 2009

More like this:

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  Male    92.5 %
  Female     6 %
  Other    1.5 %

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617

rwolf · on Oct 3, 2009

It's unfortunate to call sites with a preponderance of female users matriarchal.

Majority is not the same as power.

Mz · on Oct 4, 2009

Unfortunately, all too true. I have seen a lot of female dominated (numbers-wise) lists where some man is the center of attention and power, apparently largely because he is male. And should some woman be so uppity as to stand up to him, all hell will break loose -- not just because he won't stand for it but because of the gaggle of women who will try to ensure that no one speaks to him without being appropriately obeisant.

Huge sore point for me. This is probably not the place to get into it.