why are there so few cis women?

The explanation that used to go around was that it was because we started as a lifeboat from a subreddit. Reddit has disproportionately few cis women who are disproportionately likely to only post in female-majority subreddits.

However, it's been way too long since we were a subreddit for that to still be the reason for the underrepresentation on Hexbear, especially considering that there have been multiple large user influxes since then.

I have some kinda complex thoughts on this, but I think it's site culture related and there's been a lot of user pushback to change in that regard.