Cat Hicks5d ago

Because mastodon is like a 99% male audience, I will say this: if you have an aging mother you are in relationship with and care about, do NOT make her go through medical stuff alone. I am skilled & mean enough to fight through medical stuff and even so you would not believe how bad it is. Just accept that you cannot imagine.

I talk to a lot of people's aging moms and they are abandoned & alone even in nice families. I don't care how awkward it is, you have to try to ask them about it.

Show threadTrish Roberts5d ago
@grimalkina @MostlyTato 99% male audience? That’s not been my experience
Show threadMostlyTato
@treleanor @grimalkina
Not mine either, now you mention it.
Mar 17 at 8:33pmWeb
Show threadCassandrich5d ago
@MostlyTato @treleanor @grimalkina It doesn't feel like my experience of interacting, but it prompted me to run through my followers list and make a quick estimate. In the most recent ~250, of the ones that I was able to easily guess a gender for (maybe 150), I had about +60 male. That would be around 70%, and maybe more than 80% depending on the ones I didn't attempt to guess or guessed wrong. This is kinda surprising but not surprising.
Show threadCassandrich5d ago
@MostlyTato @treleanor @grimalkina And using the same procedure on my follows, out of 952, at least 499 (52%) seem to be non-men. That matches much closer to my experience of interactions on fedi.