Hey folks, the results are in and the vast majority of active Hexbear users say they are not cishet! hexbear-pride

This survey had the same limitations of our previous transgender survey. This means we do not have the tech to make this survey more accurate through other means (more questions, more options, negative/positive answering, anonymous answering, etc). However, we do have a good sampling of the active userbase (about 1/3rd of daily active users answered) and combined with the transgender poll, we can conclude that Hexbear is an overwhelmingly queer instance that is proud of stating its queerness publicly.

You can see the graphs of the previous transgender survey here:

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You can find the raw (public) data of the survey here. Feel free to audit my numbers and make sure I didn't hallucinate anything!

The total tally was

Yes = 114 
No = 195 
Unsure = 30 
Total = 339 

A number of people did not follow instructions properly, and I put them into the category that made sense based on the information they provided.

A number of people used the dean-malice emote which was not in the set of emojis I provided for responses. Most were merged into yes, unless they stated they were queer otherwise.

This survey is a little less complex than the last one, I kept it short and sweet and did not tally the pronouns.

Both surveys were done over three days and were pinned on the front page.


P.S. Thanks @ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml for helping make this a bit quicker with your code here.

I hope you all have as much fun with this information as I did and I hope you all have a great Pride Month cat-trans

  • cosecantphi [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Let me know if I'm off the mark about any of this, but my guess is that we'd see a significant bump in cis women if the polling were anonymous. Things are getting lot better now as the internet becomes increasingly diverse, but early on it was dominated by white, cishet techbros who suddenly found themselves with their own anonymous soapbox with endless reach.

    Cis women learn from an early age that outing their gender on the internet results in creeps crawling out of the woodwork to harass them, so they don't do it. Transwomen face the same misogyny, but are far more comfortable on the internet owing to their experience of using it before hatching.

    • GaveUp [she/her]M
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      1 month ago

      Transwomen face the same misogyny, but are far more comfortable on the internet owing to their experience of using it before hatching.

      Male socialization mentioned!!! Let's goooooo

      AMAB AMAB AFAB ARAB ACAB

      • cosecantphi [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        Sorry, I'm really stoned and was just spitballing there. Is what I said reactionary or adjacent to the way reactionaries use the term male socialization?

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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        1 month ago

        tbf being comfy with something because you’re proficient with it is different from ‘male socialization’ especially because being good at something isn’t a gendered trait (no matter how much stembros want it to be)

    • kristina [she/her]
      hexagon
      M
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      1 month ago

      That's also true, mentioned it in the original survey.