My guess would be that with the huge amount of American males (it is a big country after all) people just assume. And women are known to care about animals more, whether that is true or not.

I’ve been called a guy before and my name doesn’t exactly strike people as male. I am female. I’ve been on the internet long enough not to care.

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I don’t, but the only vegan I know is a male, so I imagine him when I hear or read the word vegan. He’s a pretty cool cat.

I assume everyone on the Internet is a dog.

It’s because when you take small sample size of “people on the internet” you’ll get either completely random set of beliefs and assumptions, or you’ll get beliefs and assumptions that you’re prejudiced to project onto the wider sample.

Strange, I assume everyone on the internet is a male especially the vegans.

I’ve never met any woman that was even close to being as much of a cunt as internet vegans.

Long ago I remember an argument in favor of rule #30 “There are no girls on the internet” which I will paraphrase:

The internet gives anonymity and if you have something of value to say, it should be able to stand on its own regardless of one’s weight, sex, religion, preferences, location or such. If you have to chime in that you are a girl, then you are either FBI (see rule 29) or looking for attention, but with nothing valuable to add. If you have nothing to add, then we go to rule 31 (show pics of your tits or get out).

Now, the reality is that such sentiment is sexist and ugly, but there is a general truth to the concept of an idea standing on its own merits regardless of source. Current social pressures lead to the behavior in question in that we’ve been somewhat conditioned to think that a) computers are for boys (this has become far less of a stereotype since smartphones became a thing), and b) veganism is unmanly/stupid (I don’t understand why this still has traction, either, given Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Lewis, and a bunch of butch people are vegan).

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Nah, or you’re a vegan on the internet, I assume you’re a religious zealot

Interesting. The couple of vegans I have known in real life have been sickly-looking young men, so that’s what I envision.

Demographics. It may not be the case anymore but in the early days of the internet it was a majority American males. That trope has stuck around.

And statistically, vegans are roughly twice as likely to be women.

I think it’s cuz women care alot about their diet. Vegan diets help with weight loss

Because even now 2/3rds of vegans are women?

And the number used to be MUCH HIGHER.

So it’s natural assumption to make.

Nobody here old enough to remember rules 30&31 of the Internet lol?

For the first systement, yes, there are a lot of women on the Internet nowadays. But there also are a lot of men pretending to be women, and a lot of creepy men, so I’m guessing a lot of women just don’t mention it or pretend not to be one just to get some peace.

It all boils down to stereotypes, IMHO. Every time you’re making such statements as “all X are Y” when talking about groups of people based on one criterion, you’re stereotyping. Such broad generalizations are rarely useful outside humoristic tropes, and even then…

Easiest stereotypes to confirm? most likely that.

Because people who have never actually met a vegan before assume they’re all unwashed hippie women. They’re basically incapable of imagining a scenario where a man wouldn’t want a steak dinner lol