> Or to put it another way, if this post was treated with s/girl/guy/, would anybody mention anything about "being a male programmer"? Bingo. There's a recent

> Or to put it another way, if this post was treated with s/girl/guy/, would anybody mention anything about "being a male programmer"? Bingo. There's a recent post on HN trending right now about mistreatment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11429590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11429590 The difference is that the person is male and the comparison of comments here and there is - peculiar.