[Id15eba6u]

Sorry for the angry rant and I know this doesn't follow the general opinion of HN.

But who cares. Why is it important to write an article of women in [Insert X]. Their gender is not important, and quite frankly demeaning of their efforts to further the field.

Try to stray away from ad hominem

[antirez]

You can easily restate the whole blog post and include other categories that are often victims of the same behaviors, because of physical differences, gender, nationality, and so forth. Yes, focusing just on women is not optimal IMHO because this also happens to other persons that should be defended as well, however it makes sense to remark that women are a "notable" category of discrimination. Also for the problems exposed in this blog post, I think the author really nailed it, and certain things are women-specific, like focusing and making a comment on the beauty instead of content, and also this eye contact thing. But in general it should always be remembered that the same happens to other categories.

[lindajxie]

Absolutely, I included in the post that gender was only one aspect of diversity that I was focusing on in the post but should have made that more clear.