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At best one could argue that there's simply less women in these communities due to societal pressures. During the past decade or so I've probably met as many tr
by ryanlol 10y ago
At best one could argue that there's simply less women in these communities due to societal pressures. During the past decade or so I've probably met as many transwomen as "real" women on these hacker IRCs.
However, I do believe that women are just as likely and willing to participate when they do end up in these communities. It's just that they're less likely to do so, just as they're less likely to end up working as programmers.
- busterarm 10y agoSo what you're saying is "when women are part of a community they behave like the community"? Then why is it so hard for people to believe that women on the internet are just as abusive as men on the internet? The internet is a community, or community of communities.
- ryanlol 10y ago>Then why is it so hard for people to believe that women on the internet are just as abusive as men on the internet? Is it? I don't find it hard to believe in the slightest, at least based on what I see on twitter and similar sites with a more even gender distribution. Also, I don't believe you can draw any useful conclusions on the presence or lack of women in the aforementioned fringe communities. These communities are extremely small, and the extremes of abuse perpetrated by their members are vanishingly rare.