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[–]writerlylesbian 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Thank you for taking the time to do this! Anything there on age? (I haven't looked at the raw data so I'm not sure what questions were in the purview). I bet age statistics would show some interesting trends, if it was there.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I saw your comment and went to go look for info on age, and discovered I made a couple mistakes, RIP. I am now updating my numbers. I will get back to age shortly! It's a very good point.

edit: Because I absolutely adore your writing, I was inspired to throw together a graph.. https://imgur.com/a/a9VDPAG

The graph is of all survey respondents, to be clear, and the percentages I list below are among just the subgroup that are lesbians.

Basically-- lesbians (female-born homosexuals) seem to make up a larger (edit: meant "larger" not "large") proportion of the users that are older. Unsurprising perhaps, given that "lesbian" is a less popular label in general among people my age. But, the majority of lesbians on AL are still actually quite young. There's almost twice as many that are under 25, as there are over 25. And speaking as an under-25 myself, there is a ton of peer pressure among people my age to believe all this gender stuff, so I'm really not surprised that there are as many real lesbian on AL as there seem to be (31% per my corrected code). I would bet that 26-35 age range is actually pretty affected by this sort of peer pressure too, but I'm not sure.

Of those who are lesbian (female-born homosexual):

  • 16% are under 18
  • 47% are 18-25 age range
  • 32% are 26-35 age range
  • 5% are 36-45 age range
  • 1.3% are 46+

[–]Innisfree 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Very insightful. Kudos to you for the fantastic work.

Agree on peer pressure, saw it among the 35 age group where I live. In the words of Galadriel: "The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air."

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Aw, thank you :) :) I'm so glad you find it interesting!

Yeah, I am not inclined to speak for other age groups but it's good to hear from others who have that experience. That is a very relevant quote.

[–]writerlylesbian 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You're amazing, I suck at making graphs and that kind of thing. Really cool the way you've put everything together. The "Is lesbian?" question on the side of the graph really made me laugh. Quite striking how much the non-lesbians outnumber the lesbians in pretty much all age categories. And the fact that it skews very young confirms what I had always assumed to be the case with that site.

Because I absolutely adore your writing

Thank you :) Glad someone enjoys my internet rambling.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Aw thanks!! :) :) I feel honored you appreciate it. I do greatly enjoy your internet rambling!

The "Is lesbian?" question on the side of the graph really made me laugh.

I only realized after I made the first version of the graph that it looked kind of funny, so I left it, lol.

And the fact that it skews very young confirms what I had always assumed to be the case with that site.

Everyone is talking about race, but this is actually the unique part of the demographics data, in my opinion. AL is pretty typical compared to the rest of Reddit, race-wise, but I think they might actually skew a little younger than many other parts of Reddit. Makes sense to me.. I've often gone on there and seen comments that I'm like, "How could a grown adult have said this..?" And the truth is that they are probably not an adult, or are a young adult or I guess they're very deep into transgender ideology.

By the way, I don't know how much interest you have in data analysis yourself, but I learned from a free online textbook (a couple, actually, but one especially) that is fantastic. If you're interested in any resources on how to do this stuff, I would be happy to share. But no pressure, just figured I would throw it out there, I love doing this stuff haha.

[–]writerlylesbian 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, I'd be happy to have links/resources. Not in possession of a lot of spare time right now, but eventually it would be cool to look into it.