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True, that's the feeling I got from fanfiction.net or AO3, but there are fanfiction spaces that seem to have more men.
I can think of Spacebattles, Sufficient Velocity, fiction.live or Questionable Questing from the top of my mind. The last two especially, given the type of gratuitous smut you will find there.
I am not able to find the forum thread that did the poll, but you will feel the difference when reading works in these spaces vs AO3. Especially the way feelings are handled in the writing.
Of course, it is also possible that SB or SV just have better women writers and hence you don't experience the same uncanny valley feeling you get from reading a lot of AO3 authors writing men.
Do women on The Motte have any tells they use to predict whether a writer under a pseudonym is a man? Say by how they write women?
Anecdotal Data says that SB and SF are less female dominated than most amature fiction dumping zones, majority men rather than 50/50 or 80/20.
That said, the proportion of non dog-shit (not an obvious power fantasy/weird sex thing AND has some fucking grammar) stories with she/her on the profile seems to be quite a bit higher than the gender ratio should produce.
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