[silentplummet]

This is fair, but let's recognize that the discussion takes place in the context of a few well known individuals who have made an enviably successful career as freelance victims, who stridently prevaricate about the persecution they've experienced in the industry, but by all accounts don't actually do any work on technology at all.

One wrote a story for a mediocre video game and claims publicly to be a game developer. Is she a 'woman in tech'? It's like if I painted a mural on a house during construction this one time and went on claiming a career in carpentry. But don't you dare claim I'm not legitimately a carpenter, because hey, stop persecuting me!

The dichotomy isn't false, it's quite real and true, and it seems obvious to me that there are a handful of lamentably visible charlatans who are to blame for it. On the other hand, I could list dozens of women in the industry whose output I greatly respect and they seem to experience great success, but you never hear a peep out of them. It's almost like the more "tangentially involved" one is with tech, the more vocal one becomes about this supposed persecution...

[dang]

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10761246 and marked it off-topic.

[silentplummet]

That's a pretty fast turnaround time. 6 minutes! I don't think the Air Force can even scramble jets that fast.

Would you care to point out exactly what part of the comment is "off-topic" pursuant to `the experience of women in tech`?

[dang]

The timing is random.

The comment is trying to convert this thread into the most well-rehearsed flamewar of the last several years. That's not just off topic, it's arson. The HN guidelines explicitly ask you not to do such things on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Also, please stop posting inflammatory rhetoric to HN generally. That's not what this site is for.