So the Man Boobz survey results are in, and Argenti Aertheri, who ran the survey, has taken the time and effort to make an impressive set of interactive charts to display the data in all of its gory details. You can find that chart below — thanks again, Argenti! — but I thought I’d highlight a few of the results first.
Let’s start with the white elephant in the room. I know I’ve made some somewhat rude remarks in the past about the high percentage of white people in the Men’s Rights subreddit.
Well, it turns out that the Man Boobz readership is even whiter than that. Yep. Using the same somewhat limited set of choices used by the dude who did the Men’s Rights subreddit survey, the MB survey found that the readership of this blog is nearly 92% white, and less than 2% each Asian, Hispanic and Black, with the remainder answering “Other.”
There is also a more complicated breakdown of ethnicities, based on a more nuanced set of questions, that I’m not even going to try to summarize; you can look through the charts yourself.
But, basically, yeah, this blog’s readership, like me, is pretty darn white. I take these results as an indication that I need to do a better job dealing with issues of race and racism. While this blog is primarily about misogyny, there is plenty of racism in the manosphere — from the white-supremacism-lite of Heartiste to the fetishization of Asian women as submissive — and it’s worth pointing this out on a more regular basis, as well as addressing some of the more subtle ways misogyny intersects with other forms of oppression. As well as the ways in which the standard (non) issues of the Men’s Rights movement can actually serve to obscure the very real issues faced by men of color. (See yesterday’s post for a perfect example of that.)
So what are some of the other notable results?
You’re all younger than me. Well, not literally ALL of you. In fact, there are a whole 4% of you older than me.
But the fact is that if you’re reading this, the chances are really, really, really good that you’re in your twenties or early thirties. Still, I feel fairly confident in saying that eventually you will be as old as I am now.
Also, it’s pretty likely that you’re a lady. Most of the readers of the blog — 59% — are cis women, with 30% cis men. The remaining 11 percent are made up of trans* women (2.2%), trans* men (0.9%), intersex (o.2%), “non-binary” (5.2%) and “other” (2.5%).
See the interactive charts below for a much more detailed breakdown of the data on gender and sexuality.
We’re a bunch of pinkos. More Man Boobzers identified themselves with Democratic Socialism than with any other political label. The second and third place winners in this category? “Other US Liberalism” and “Social Democratism.”
The sun never sets on the Man Boobz empire. Predictably, most Man Boobz readers — roughly 58% — live in the United States. And there are lots of Man Boobzers in other English-speaking countries around the world, particularly the UK, Canada, and Australia.
But Man Boobz attracts readers in a lot of places where English speakers are in a minority. I was a little surprised to find that there are twice as many Boobzers in Germany, for example, than in New Zealand, and that there are nearly as many in Iceland as in Ireland. There are readers in countries ranging from Argentina to El Salvador, from Jordan to Japan.
There are all sorts of other intriguing factoids to be found in the survey results, from a rather complicated slicing-and-dicing of religious beliefs to answers to the critical question: how many of you are actually me?
If you don’t have Flash, go here to see the charts in all their glory. See here for the footnotes and survey questions and raw data.
If you’re not a regular commenter here, this will help you to make sense of some of the silly in-jokes at the end of the survey.
One last note: The survey doesn’t tell us what percentage of Man Boobz readers consider themselves feminists or, ick, Men’s Rightsers. I’m going to do a quick followup survey on that in an upcoming post.
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Yeah, I’m not altogether too surprised. Intersectionality is a thing that a lot of progressives have trouble achieving, and as a group of people primarily interested in entertaining ourselves we don’t necessarily do a whole lot of outreach.
At least we try to own our shit, though, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen an MRA do.
That is pretty awesome! Great work making it all so easy to read. And thanks for the free hug.
Ahh yes, fun with intentionality. It’s often the sticking point for many a ‘progressive’ group. Learning to recognize your own unconscious privileged is hard work. And when I say ‘your’, I mean ‘mine’. As a cis white guy, I have to constantly work on it… I wonder… If I did a workshop, do you think JTO would attend?
Stupid spell check… First sentence should read “Fun with INTERSECTIONALITY….. 🙂
In B4 someone says that because we’re so white, we’re just a racist as the MRM. I hope that someone is banned, I can’t take another 1,000+ comments of his.
My comments so far:
I didn’t excepted such a big number of bi/pan/omni sexual people, especially compared to gays/lesbians
1/4 didn’t want to answer on their current relationship!
The disabilities of 100% of the people without disability are invisible. ^^
I sort of stumbled into reading blogs by black feminists from Star Trek. I somehow got there by this discussion of Uhura in the new movies. Some white feminists had argued that it was sad how she had been reduced to a love interest, and then some black feminists were like “Hey, that love interest role? Pretty much always occupied by a white chick, whereas the black woman is reduced to sassy black friend or some of the other few roles permitted to black women. It’s pretty fucking cool that a black woman get to be “the hot girl” and the love interest!” And this seems to be a fairly common theme among black feminists… How white feminists go, for instance “as a girl you’re taught through fairy tales that you’re job is to be pretty and attract a prince” whereas it’s really just white girls who are taught that; black girls are taught that pretty and loveable means ‘white’ and that the princess role doesn’t apply to them.
And STILL I probably do this myself all the time: Going “this and that is a fairly universal female experience” when it’s really just a white female experience. But, um, trying to learn anyway.
>I was a little surprised to find that there are twice as many Boobzers in Germany, for example, than in New Zealand
Well, Germany has twenty times the population of New Zealand, so is it really so surprising?
You know. I suppose I should have suggested we add veteran status to the original survey just to confuse people and to add another factor.
Mind you, this comes from the (in no special order) 40-ish white (sometimes, Romany so mileage may vary), trans female, lower middle class, graduate educated, bisexual. atheist, combat veteran.
Maybe you could get a non-white guest-poster who could mock mysogyny from their point of view? Or maybe get people from other countries mock their national flavour of mysogyny. I know I enjoy reading things by people who have a different frame of reference than mine and it would be nice sometimes to get a post on non-US or non-UK issues.
“And this seems to be a fairly common theme among black feminists… How white feminists go, for instance “as a girl you’re taught through fairy tales that you’re job is to be pretty and attract a prince” whereas it’s really just white girls who are taught that; black girls are taught that pretty and loveable means ‘white’ and that the princess role doesn’t apply to them. ”
This reminds me of a discussion I watched playing out in which Kerry Washington was called a “black” Scarlett Johannson and one commenter said, “We’re not allowed to have our own identity.” I am assuming that the commenter was non-white based on the discussion.
I read that and I was floored. I was so blind to how whites can trivialize the accomplishments of anyone non-white by assuming the identity of others. I would like to see that kind of privileged racism attacked with vigor.
I need the correlation between people who are David and people who are penguin whore, as is it’s not clear.
In correlation with the whiteness of most Manboobzers, I was surprised to see the ratio in term of religion: I expected a lot of Christians/ex-Christians and non religious people, but I didn’t expected so little Muslim people, given how big a religion it is in the world.
Oh, there are a whole 8 of us in Japan?? *re-lurks*
Cool.
Argenti did a really good job.
I’ll second that. Amazing job Argenti.
Only 5 trolls? Non credo. (That’s as far as I got; infogr.am takes too long to load on this iPhone and then the browser crashes. Also, no hover sounds like it takes out a lot of the fun, so I’ll have to look at this on a proper computer.)
That’s good; it means none of us are non-disabled but faking disability in order to get good parking spaces or seats at the front of the bus.
No big surprises for me here, although I was happy to see almost thirty percent of the readership were cis males.
Lots of us ex-pats in Germany!
Well, I WAS surprised that I was sooooo old compared to the vast majority here. Where are the other post-menopausal crones?
That’s amazing! Thanks so much Argenti, this was so much work and it’s awesome.
One right here La Strega. LOL – there are a couple of us at least.
Three cheers for Argenti, who did such a great job collecting and collating the data!
Another one right here, La Strega!
And a round of applause for Argenti!!