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It wasn't a single comment and some of the more egregious things that have been said to me on HN were deleted before the edit window closed. In fact, accounts w
by Mz 10y ago
It wasn't a single comment and some of the more egregious things that have been said to me on HN were deleted before the edit window closed. In fact, accounts were recently banned by the mods over a particularly ugly and sexually explicit personal attack against me (which was deleted before the edit window closed).
I don't believe the overall pattern of behavior where women get male attention that is motivated primarily by sexual interest is remotely as rare as you are suggesting. We would not be having this conversation at all if that were the case.
Women do get treated differently than men online. I am hardly the only one that sees that.
- mindslight 10y agoI'm not saying that the occurrences themselves are rare to the recipients of them. But when viewed in the context of how many people one is actually interacting with, the fraction of boneheaded anti-social behavior is small. My ratios were meant as lower bounds. As in, I would expect at least 1 in 1000 readers to attempt to friend the author [0], especially as such an action can be plausibly denied as just friendly professional networking. In reality that number is much higher [1], but I'm using a conservative estimate to make the point that even if it is this rare, multiplied by a huge audience still creates an issue. [0] I certainly wouldn't do so myself and I'm not condoning the behavior either. I'm just saying that there are going to be at least this many asshats. [1] In fact I now see that the original post only had 3k views, so I should revise that to 1:100 - without contradiction.