Hey folks, the results are in and the vast majority of active Hexbear users say they are not cishet!
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:
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
a third of the users are cishet
please xi/xir
Oh great so I’m going to be executed for being straight now?
put on the thigh highs. we won’t ask a second time
Joke’s on you I already have thigh highs… Somewhere. And a garter belt that hasn’t fit in probably a decade. : p
Even the cis on hexbear aren’t cis.
Cishet with Queer Characteristics
I’ve said it before, but if it wasn’t for hexbear I wouldn’t have been confident enough to understand I am Nb. So ty y’all.
YIPPEE
I’M THE MINORITY NOW :sicko-yes:
nah but tbf
just like with the last survey, i’m really fucking happy for how things are split up
being in the minority as a cis dude is very reassuring about what kind of space hexbear is
just a quick minority report
:basil-anxious-smile: no please don’t, i promise i’m one of the good ones
:basil-anxious: im a good cissy seriously please don’t
I’m a straight guy but I like sucking off other guys in a hetero way. Still straight
I am straight
the more adamantly you claim it the more true it is! keep it up
It’s funny how the pronouns surveyed give away the answers of some of the users with less common ones.
“For the sake of Privacy Let’s call her Lisa S… No That’s too Obvious, let’s say L. Simpson.” Except fae/faer I guess
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this is really cool and it’s great to be part of a community that embraces our trans comrades, or should i say a community of trans comrades that embraces its cis minority.
am i reading the results correctly that very few cis women responded to the survey/are present on hexbear? “No votes by pronoun” has a dark grey sliver which i assume would be “she/her”, implying cis women?
Glad to contribute to the anti-cis cause
What makes some people go by it/it’s?
Abolishing gender is a start, but why not abolish your humanity for the cold superiority of steel? Dissociation between my internetself and meatself. Funsies.
I am a binary trans guy but I dislike gendered pronouns as a concept. I also dislike “they” as a gender-neutral pronoun(no offense to people who use it, I don’t like using it) so I use the other gender neutral pronoun. It also just goes kinda hard.
Putting things in gendered boxes wears on me to the extent I want to go by it/they/them. I’ll go by “she/her” sometimes but it’s to embrace the underdog role I have in this patriarchy.
How do you handle it someone calls you “it” in a mean way?
I have been insulted and dehumanized for being trans but never specifically by getting called it, which might be why I am more willing to use it.
If I was called it as an insult I don’t think I would understand unless they pointed out their intent, in which case I’d probably try to leave.
Because they like it, the same reason anyone would go by a particular set of pronouns over others
- ∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netMEnglish1·4 months ago
I am a cat.
Everyone’s gonna be different, but the one person I know IRL who goes by it/its is autistic and feels that it/its pronouns appropriately express the way that it as an autistic person has experienced and identified with its own dehumanization. It just feels right with those pronouns.
What do you mean by dehumanization?
It’s so interesting seeing how there’s almost no cis women in online left spaces but irl, they seem to be the plurality (at least amongst the younger crowd (aka same age demographic as online) for sure they are)
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.
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
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?
No not really, sorry I just have tgcj syndrome
What is tgcj syndrome ? I googled but am getting uninterpretable reddit bigotry
Transgendercirclejerk. I’m assuming the subreddit.
Ohhhhh ok yeah I’m a dumbass. That subreddit kept coming up with just the acronym in the title but I did not put 2 and 2 together.
Classic stormfromt bullshit then