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Browsers, Gender, Gays

By The Daily Dish
Aug 7 2008, 8:33 AM ET

A reader writes:

You know that little gimmick you mentioned that peruses your browsing history to figure out your male/female ratio?

An interesting irony of it is that the highest ratios you can get are from gay websites (adam4adam is 4.13 as a commenter points out) which ironically means that, in that world, a lot of gay men get a 100% while most heterosexual male get at least something like a 10% female side.

Political blogs are also skewed pointedly male:



My highest male score came on RealClearPolitics, whose ratio of male to female users is 1.82. Close behind that was Politico, with a ratio of 1.7. And that doesn't seem so surprising until you realize that both figures are significantly higher than the ratio at mlb.com. Mlb.com is the site for Major League Baseball, where I follow the Red Sox. The ratio there is just 1.33. I'm not saying girls and women can't like baseball, naturally. But it goes to show you just how male-dominated our political conversation remains, even today. (And, no, I don't think that's a terribly good thing.)

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