Reddit Mining to Understand Gendered Movements

Wemine gender-oriented Reddit forums, r/Feminism, r/MensRights, and r/TheRedPill, to understand gendered movements and their participants. Our methods include topic modelling using nonnegative matrix factorization, and analyzing user commenting activity. Our analysis leads to three main findings. First, gendered forums discuss workplace sexism, personal safety, rape, and legal issues among other gender issues, and different forums have different perspectives on these issues. Second, users commenting on r/MensRights are similar to users who are politically right leaning and associated with sexist or racist content, whereas users commenting on r/Feminism are similar to those who support minorities, body acceptance, and survivors of sexual assault. Third, users commenting on r/TheRedPill are similar to those who do not believe in the equality of race or gender.

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