[mpweiher]

> I have enormous difficulty establishing professional connections.

> I have been on HN 8.5 years.

I think I can solve that conundrum for you: HN is not the right place for looking for professional connections.

So maybe your problem with getting professional connections is looking for same where none are to be had.

Look elsewhere.

Nothing to do with gender.

[DoreenMichele]

For someone who claims to want nothing to do with me, you are talking to me an awful lot and those remarks are not exactly kind.

[matte_black]

I don’t know about others, but I never came to HN to make professional connections nor do I intend to. I just see HN as a more upscale subreddit.