I know this is mostly joking but I cannot tell if people really think there’s a correlation between being LGBT and using Linux. If there is one, what explains it?
I saw a thread asking why there’s so many transfems on lemmy compared to transmascs, I imagine this might be helpful:
if we take a field that is generally more popular with men than women, for a wildly exaggerated example let’s say there’s a 100:1 ratio. 100,000 men and 1,000 women.
When we factor in that 0.5% of the population is trans it turns to 250 transfems and 2.5 transmascs (using 0.25% for each)
Now ~25% of women are transfem, but only ~0.003% of men are transmasc.
(provided everyone’s transition happens after you joined lemmy, this isn’t a perfect theory.)
Or that queer people are more likely to challenge the status quo when issues arise than cishet people so changing to Linux is aken to an act of resistance. Or it’s just a trend and I could be overthinking it🤷♀️
correlation on a correlation. Autists are more likely to be computer nerds and/or trans. It could be a self fulfilling prophecy, a massive bag of small things, or just a joke from an endless chaos called universe.
I don’t know if there actually is one, I highly doubt it. However, there always seems to be an extremely high density of queer people at software events so… maybe there is?
Yeah I don’t know either. I’m tempted to wonder that if there is one, the common thread might be something like “people who aren’t afraid to do what’s best for themselves”.
I know this is mostly joking but I cannot tell if people really think there’s a correlation between being LGBT and using Linux. If there is one, what explains it?
I saw a thread asking why there’s so many transfems on lemmy compared to transmascs, I imagine this might be helpful:
if we take a field that is generally more popular with men than women, for a wildly exaggerated example let’s say there’s a 100:1 ratio. 100,000 men and 1,000 women.
When we factor in that 0.5% of the population is trans it turns to 250 transfems and 2.5 transmascs (using 0.25% for each)
Now ~25% of women are transfem, but only ~0.003% of men are transmasc.
(provided everyone’s transition happens after you joined lemmy, this isn’t a perfect theory.)
Or that queer people are more likely to challenge the status quo when issues arise than cishet people so changing to Linux is aken to an act of resistance. Or it’s just a trend and I could be overthinking it🤷♀️
correlation on a correlation. Autists are more likely to be computer nerds and/or trans. It could be a self fulfilling prophecy, a massive bag of small things, or just a joke from an endless chaos called universe.
I don’t know if there actually is one, I highly doubt it. However, there always seems to be an extremely high density of queer people at software events so… maybe there is?
Yeah I don’t know either. I’m tempted to wonder that if there is one, the common thread might be something like “people who aren’t afraid to do what’s best for themselves”.
Is there a higher density? Maybe you’re just seeing all those glorious thigh high socks and jumping to conclusions! Lol