[chirau]

Out of curiosity...is this a man or a woman?

EDIT: What's with the oversensitivity here? Is there anything wrong in asking a person's sex? What if it's for studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria? Geez folks, not every question is sinister. If you don't want to answer it, just move on. No one is being attacked here.

[albertgoeswoof]

> EDIT: What's with the oversensitivity here?

It's not oversenstivity, there's literally no reason to care about the sex of the person who wrote this. It's completely offtopic and irrelevant.

What does "studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria" mean anyway? Reading between the lines it sounds like you think women behave one way and men the other way (which is fine if you think that btw), but wanting to "study" that using this article is just dumb.

[zaroth]

"Literally no reason" in this case meaning...?

If you went through 7 books of "Harri Potter" carefully written to never reveal the gender of the main character, would you care?

It's human nature to be curious. And particularly about a dark shady character pulling of crazy crypto heists.

Ambiguity over the identity of the narrator is part of the hook. Of course it's reflex to start drawing a picture of this character in your mind as you read. When the gender is unknown or not clear, and particularly when you throw in mixed messages that this might not be the stereotypical male basement dweller, it's interesting.

[celdon25]

Note that the question was phrased as "Out of curiosity...". This is essentially a disclaimer that it is an off-topic and irrelevant question. From the way I see it, your comment is even less reasonable in this context.

[albertgoeswoof]

You mean like if I used the same disclaimer and asked you this:

"Out of curiousity, are you male?"

Can you not see what that implies?

[imustbeevil]

> What if it's for studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria?

A study based on one person doesn't sound very interesting.

Did you click the link at all? The author has a name and a picture.

[andai]

From jaclaz comment higher up:

> Just for the record "Mitch Brenner" is the name of a character in the Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", and the photo in the profile is of the australain actor that played it, Rod Taylor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Taylor

[exikyut]

I happened to be doing some bug/feature chasing in Firefox a couple days ago (Firefox doesn't support Shadow DOM yet!! >.<), and found myself reading https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205323.

The reporter (who I am not calling out - it's the reply I want to focus on) happened to say "hey guys" as a salutatory address of the whole group. The very much unexpected comment reply that came next briefly digressed from the bug report to point out that small sentence and reference this URL: https://notapattern.net/2014/10/14/ways-men-in-tech-are-unin...

Tossing gender aside for a short moment, when I saw that link (and the multi-paragraph followup comment following the author's mild rebuff of the callout and URL as irrelevant), I'd say I was mildly irritated and maybe even fractionally offended (in the sense of "a tiny bit fed up", but not unreasonably/irrationally so) by it. This was mostly because calling this out seemed so out of place, and really, for what end?

Heheh. Then I read the article. It's well-written, grounded, and the links in the page point to similarly high-quality content (I may have link-chained for a couple hours...). I consider this page pretty much required reading; Mozilla found a good URL to reference for this.

I can understand your standpoint; I had it myself. Had. I'm grateful to say I'm comfortable how I was born. I also happen to like the opposite gender :P. So I'm pretty much a stereotype. But, as a stereotype, there was a ton I learned from that article, and I see everybody differently now.

To answer your question in good faith (no offense intended) - the site displays a small avatar photo of the author at the bottom.

[aaron695]

It is an interesting question since they are obviously either making it totally up or creating a fake persona to throw people off the scent (knowing full well it's obvious).

Lets go with "throwing people off the scent"

So pop-psyc to act gay but not be gay would rule out many cultures, genders and age groups.

So I'd go with they are a hetrosexual man, late 20's to early 30's. Western upbringing in an English speaking country.

They chose Tider over Grinder, because that's part of the story, the surprise. But they could have just said date, hence I think they are reasonable mature. It's a little clever.

Given they chose a Australia actor, I'd guess they are a New Zealander.

[jsjohnst]

> Now, I’m not a rich guy, so 253 ETH is a nice amount of money, which is about half a year salary

This seems to imply the author is male.

[albertgoeswoof]

why do you even care