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Holly crap! Congratulations woman!!!
by seejay 9y ago
Holly crap! Congratulations woman!!!
- jacquesm 9y agoOP is a man.
- seejay 9y agoI don't understand the minus points here. Did I piss a bunch of people off? I genuinely loved OPs comment here (gave it an upvote). So instead of saying "woman" here If I just "assumed" he is a man and said congratulations "man" or "bro" would I get plus points?
- sourceless 9y agoWhy make an assumption at all?
- bahjoite 9y agoYou might have omitted "woman".
- Jaruzel 9y agoYour comment, although well-meaning, also didn't add anything to the conversation. People tend to vote those down.
- seejay 9y agoThank you very much! in that case I'd be ok with the down votes. But the first reply I got here from someone I assume who is in charge of HN was "OP is a man" so I can't help but wonder what's really going on in the minds of these down voters.
- alainv 9y ago1) Your comment added nothing, but then this wasn't a high-value thread anyway. 2) Any pronoun in that case would be superfluous. "Holy crap! Congratulations!" would be far more intuitive to native english speakers. Choosing to add a gendered pronoun without knowing the correct gender is just... odd. That's exactly the type of situation most would avoid where possible: you omit gendered pronouns unless you know.
- seejay 9y agoI agree with both your points, completely. Thank you very much!
- vxNsr 9y agoYou've derailed this thread without adding anything substantial. HN usually frowns on that. Also though, your comment came off as political.
- sctb 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031769 and marked it off-topic.