[jmfayard]

For women online in particular I'm pretty sure lots of them would rather enjoy less attention on them personally. Too much it not pleasant for _them_. I'm thinking in particular about friends who are content creators, minding her own business and receive comments on her look, insults, sexist comments, unsolicited dick pics, rape and death threats,... I'm sure sexism has nothing to do with that.

OK I'm done on this topic. Maybe there are a lots of women behind internet trolls and then I'm wrong, that's an empirical question. My comment was on "strongly disagree" vs "bullshitting"

[Banana699]

My followup question is why you felt the need to claim that the answer to an empirical question is something that you haven't verified empirically?

[kthejoker2]

100% you are a dude.

[DangitBobby]

My guess is that HN is mostly men, so you're likely to be right, but probably for the wrong reasons.

[Banana699]

What rules you used to infer my sex from the text of my comment?

[jmfayard]

Apparently you are really curious about getting to the bottom of this so I did my research.

For me it's a vague intuition. But women are much better are recognizing "men talk" than I am.

So I asked one woman how she does it and here is her answer

> Men make comments without revealing their gender, but we can see the comments are coming from a man's point of view.

> How do we know?

> We have a lifetime of experience listening to a man's point of view.

> In other words, they show their asses much more than they think.

[Banana699]

So men are the only people who comment without revealing their gender? What about trans individuals? Does that mean I can reliably mask my gender by deciding whether or not I mention it in my comments and posts?

And this still doesn't answer what rules you or the men's talk expert you asked use. Anybody can claim they have "a lifetime of experience" in anything they want, but without either an empirical success rate or a set of explicit testable rules, it's all bullshit out of their ass.

>We have a lifetime of experience listening to a man's point of view.

I and a lot of other men have a lifetime of experience listening to women's point of view too, and yet I can find no sane man who claims they can identify gender from text, unless in very special cases.

[Banana699]

PS: This is hilariously dumb and brain-dead. I can't stop re-reading it back and laughing like a maniac.

My followup question would be : what is your IQ, and that of the woman you asked?