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by _bfhp 4540 days ago
Given that you've got some emotional disposition against "feminists" and "liberals" [1], I don't think I'm going to buy your implicit effort to try to represent women. There are plenty of women who believe gender is an issue worth thinking about, whereas you seem to have no problem telling people to just "ignore" it because you're personally comfortable ignoring it.

I don't think marketing tech to women or girls is "the solution" either, but I don't make every effort to steer other men away from thinking about it and slur people for trying. That's intellectually malicious.

A part of me doesn't actually believe you're a woman, given how many men put effort into anonymously impersonating women in political debates, but I lean toward believing you

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7041037

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  there are plenty of women who think gender is an issue
Women being paid less for the same job is an issue. Sexual harassment is an issue. Women treated as secondary when it comes to promotions/scholarships is an issue. Gender is not an issue and I just dislike the implication that women cannot find their way into tech if they want to. Are we concerned that the infantry isn't 50:50 men:women? Not bloody likely.

If you think me bitter, you're wrong. I am just tired of the trend to think of women as people with "special needs". I am perhaps concerned with gender more, after all.