[vinhboy]

Why are people on HN so anal about how people identify themselves? If I introduce myself as "single beer-loving founder", why is that even an issue? If I view myself and wishes to identify myself in a certain way why can't we just accept that? Besides, this is a personal blog, can't people say what they want on their own blog? The worst part is now there is a whole section of this thread dedicated to this pointless conversation.

[patio11]

I think people have the perception at the Female part is being invoked to excuse the Non-Developer part.

Without specific reference to this post, have we ever read:

I'm a male developer, and I want to do a startup. I can handle all the coding - I'm such an underappreciated genius - but I need some of that stuff. You know, that marketing stuff. With the pretty words and stuff. I would do it myself, but it's just all I have all sorts of manly responsibilities. I mean, hello, wife and kids? Like I'd ever have time for marketing stuff. It can't be too hard, though.

I went to a networking party to find a marketing stuff person. All twenty something girls, pff, it figures. Well, they probably have time for learning that marketing stuff since they don't have anything more important to do. I talked to a couple of them, but it just didn't click. Besides, give away half my company to a marketer? Are you crazy?! It's just some words strung together in a particular order.

I hired a marketing stuff firm. I was always more cut out for asking for stuff than for doing stuff. It takes so long and their stuff doesn't look like the stuff I would write if I could write stuff! And every time their incompetence requires a redo, they charge more money!

It's no wonder there aren't more men doing stuff. I feel so unwelcome.

[BerislavLopac]

Have you been following me around? ;)

[araneae]

Because it's always female. Never beer-loving, or Asian, or bipolar. The whole industry is caught up in this obsession over the lack of women in tech, and I'm so incredibly sick of it.

[Nox]

I'm a girl, back in school to study comp sci, and I actually agree with you.

If I get hired, I want to know it's because my tech-fu is the best. I don't ever want it to be because I hit the right combo of nice rack and not totally incompetent.

I think there's a fundamental problem which is resulting in a lack of women in tech, but the useful discussion isn't about women in tech, it's about how we incorporate tech and business into the education system. By the time we're hiring or finding a partner, gender should be a non-issue. The fact that less women than men are going into the most interesting, lucrative and potentially challenging facet of society is an interesting conundrum though.

For what it's worth, I'm a beer-loving, bipolar, ADHD human with ladyparts and mathematically pleasing proportions. :P

[benmccann]

It's a fine way to identify one's self. But it's not a terribly relevant title. The article has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she is female.