I’m not trying to be political here, and I don’t think this is about LW or rationality, at all. If that observation is to have a point, I’d suggest an entirely different one:
quotation is a very male form of communication—women quote less and get quoted less
It isn’t just that scripture, constitutions and classics of literature were mostly written by men. Or that men just write more, in science, in journalism, in genre fiction etc. and almost all quotes are from written, rather than spoken expression… That’s all just the “being quoted” side of it. But the quoter participates, and I think quoters are usually male too. Even The Simpsons get quoted mostly by guys rather than than girls, at least around me...
It’s clear to me how quotation as a male form of communication would mean that women quote less, which you could check by comparing the usernames of quoters to the post-weighted sex distriubtion on LW. It’s not as clear to me how it would mean women get quoted less- that would have to be either because of my first or second explanations. (I’m counting “men quote men more frequently than they quote women, and men dominate LW” as part of my second point.)
I’m not trying to be political here, and I don’t think this is about LW or rationality, at all. If that observation is to have a point, I’d suggest an entirely different one:
quotation is a very male form of communication—women quote less and get quoted less
It isn’t just that scripture, constitutions and classics of literature were mostly written by men. Or that men just write more, in science, in journalism, in genre fiction etc. and almost all quotes are from written, rather than spoken expression… That’s all just the “being quoted” side of it. But the quoter participates, and I think quoters are usually male too. Even The Simpsons get quoted mostly by guys rather than than girls, at least around me...
It’s clear to me how quotation as a male form of communication would mean that women quote less, which you could check by comparing the usernames of quoters to the post-weighted sex distriubtion on LW. It’s not as clear to me how it would mean women get quoted less- that would have to be either because of my first or second explanations. (I’m counting “men quote men more frequently than they quote women, and men dominate LW” as part of my second point.)