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by xereeto 1046 days ago
The way you phrased it definitely made it sound like you were implying it was a bad thing lol
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That'd be the way that you read it, if they were another Alexandra Elbakyan (or Joanna Rutkowska, or Stephanie Wehner, or ... ) then they clearly wouldn't be a King among Men.

Just as I wrote.

The issue is more that your comment can be seen as a respond to the /last/ sentence of the original post.
Only to those unaware of who Alexandra Elbakyan is or to those that chose not to investigate.

For those aware the juxtaposition twixt { King of Men } | { Woman who created massive scientific paper archive } tends to dominate.

But sure, not everybody reads things the same way.

No, it is due to the way you phrased the question.
It was a statement, not a question.

That suggests the deeper issue might be language fluency, English can be difficult to parse.

It reads to me same as xereeto said. That's why I asked. Maybe think about that? Do you have some difficulty in interactions?
> Do you have some difficulty in interactions?

No.

I do have 40+ years of observing commenters on internet forums assuming unknowns are male by default.

Maybe think about that?

Well, one of those you mentioned would.