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> The author is looking for sympathy (I guess? Why would she write it otherwise).

You must really not be as smart as you think you are if you can't honestly figure out other reasons for people to share their negative experiences. Hint: spreading awareness, letting people know they're not alone, generating conversation, highlighting things that need to change, ect, ect.

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Sorry, but you are wrong, the author wants the thread off hacker news, so she doesn't want to spread awareness. Read her other tweets and you'll see that she doesn't want any kind of negative criticism, she is interested only in positive comments. If you are only interested in reassuring comments, that's called sympathy.

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> author wants the thread off hacker news, so she doesn't want to spread awareness.

She posted it on the internet so obviously she does. I don't speak for her but maybe she wants it off of hackernews to avoid the misogynistic trolls that always seem to dwell at the bottom of these threads (that's you btw).

Your argument is basically "toughen up" which is complete bullshit. See: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Suck_it_up_and_deal

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Hahaha, I should have known this is about feminism.

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I'm sure everything is "about feminism" to you. It must be so oppressive.