chapotraphouse

Outside of cities, I have no idea, but in the big cities, my observation as a guy is:

Libleft to left. I feel like there's a high baseline tendency of libleft. I think it's hard not to be that way these days because there's so many issues affecting women that are blatantly the right's making and maintaining.

I think within libleft, there's often a support of redistributive strategies, and an interest in intersectionality. It's of course well meaning, but often within 'ultra-normal' types (you know what I mean) the interest comes and goes in an Instagram infographic. I think people are a bit over cynical about that sort of thing and it definitely comes from a place of misogyny, but it is also somewhat of a trend. They usually reveal their fleeting interest through a vague anti war post, calling for peace wherever. Violence = bad, is their throughline for geopolitics, so they get caught up in liberal news cycle trends. For a fair number of people it seems to be an aesthetic, but that's much better than nothing at all, or being right wing, like most men I meet.

The word decolonising will come up if they're a person of colour or a person who attends university.

In terms of actual socialism, it seems that most local orgs and Marxist events are majority straight white guys. The women are usually people of colour, and if they're white they seem to often be she/they or trans.