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0 pointshasenj8y ago0 comments

> How would HN be reacting if this were written by and about a man? There are a lot of gender expectations that punish assertive and matter of fact women as 'bitchy' and 'insensitive'.

Did you just assume my reaction? (partly sarcastic).

If you know anything about tech and blogging and HN, you should know that most posts get flamed and dissected very quickly. People have very strong opinions and have very low tolerance for BS.

The only difference is, people from the "social justice" community always make it personal.

"What? You criticize me? It must be because of my race/skin/gender/religion/orientation, you bigoted monster!".

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hiyou1028y ago

This is easily disprovable. See for example this post about being fired from the exact same company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158913

Despite the post having less details,there is less negativity and uncertainty. For reference as to why that might be, refer to the post you are responding to.

onli8y ago

Context matters. Someone who opens https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 (read the tweets that she references, it is ridiculous to be upset about them) should not be surprised not to be welcomed by people doing actual work. And having his texts interpreted accordingly.

hasenjOP8y ago

Really? "Look, someone else wrote a post about leaving github and it wasn't received as negatively! It must because one was a white male and the other was transgender."

No. How about, the tone of the post is completely different?

hiyou1028y ago

One Github issue is not sufficient to gain a understanding of what it would be like work with someone. Any blanks that are being filled in here are being done by yours and others baises.This a proven effect in other cases: https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/are-succes...

So many devils advocates in this thread you'd think Github hired his law firm

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0 pointshasenj8y ago0 comments

> How would HN be reacting if this were written by and about a man? There are a lot of gender expectations that punish assertive and matter of fact women as 'bitchy' and 'insensitive'.

Did you just assume my reaction? (partly sarcastic).

If you know anything about tech and blogging and HN, you should know that most posts get flamed and dissected very quickly. People have very strong opinions and have very low tolerance for BS.

The only difference is, people from the "social justice" community always make it personal.

"What? You criticize me? It must be because of my race/skin/gender/religion/orientation, you bigoted monster!".

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hiyou1028y ago

This is easily disprovable. See for example this post about being fired from the exact same company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158913

Despite the post having less details,there is less negativity and uncertainty. For reference as to why that might be, refer to the post you are responding to.

onli8y ago

hasenjOP8y ago

Really? "Look, someone else wrote a post about leaving github and it wasn't received as negatively! It must because one was a white male and the other was transgender."

No. How about, the tone of the post is completely different?

hiyou1028y ago

So many devils advocates in this thread you'd think Github hired his law firm

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