I don't have access to the back end data because I don't work for Medium. I'm sure there are plenty of claps by men on this piece - I would presume there would be. The issue is that there aren't enough claps by the sort of men who NEED to read it, and that's because they likely aren't seeing it.

What I can say is that these pieces seem to be appealing far more to women than men because when you read down the comments, there are usually more comments from women. That tends to be the case. Even if there is a 50/50 readership, the support seems to be primarily coming from one sex.

Women are being heard, but they're being predominantly heard by other women. As I said in my linked article, i think we've squandered much of the chance the #MeToo movement gave us to reflect, as it was immediately pushed by the loudest voices and not necessarily the most intelligent. It's no good having allies if you haven't got a strategy and it doesn't seem like feminism has a strategy at the moment - in the vein of social media, it cares more about being heard than the substance of what it is trying to say. That's what I argued in my article about the bear discussion, which I think added very little to the discourse. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/a-woman-man-and-bear-go-into-the-woods-b7e7dbae0a2c

The comments of 'good men' are dropping away, because the message is becoming increasingly solipsistic and leans heavily into 'feminism is for women' rather than 'feminism is a all-human movement for equality between the sexes'. The theme might be correct, there is greater movement to be done in women's rights than in mens rights, but that doesn't mean it's a quick and easy fix.

On that note, I don't wish for women to be quiet - far from it. I just don't want women to be shouting rhetoric into an echo chamber, whooping and high-fiving under the mistaken belief this constitutes change. That makes the world more dangerous for women, not less dangerous and that worries me. There need to be nuanced and difficult conversations and those aren't happening at the moment, because everyone is too busy trying to win.

Here's an example of what I mean should you want to come and disagree with me further. And you should. You always should. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/just-because-a-website-said-its-rape-doesn-t-make-it-so-33e674e83a37