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First off, if you want to see hostile excitement, go look at what happens when men try to get together to talk about real legal discrimination rather than just
by tnone 9y ago
First off, if you want to see hostile excitement, go look at what happens when men try to get together to talk about real legal discrimination rather than just low representation. A skeptical internet thread is nothing compared to the protesting, fire alarm pulling, slander and career sabotage that occurs.
Second, people don't like it because it's special pleading, funneling disproportionate attention to a minority in the industry for the sake of the omnipresent boogieman of "cultural pressure". Of course coupled with heavy handed moderation that if you disagree, you're a bad person.
The fact that it is easy to get support for stuff like this is paradoxically used as evidence that it's hard. But coverage does not equal incidence, and equal opportunity has not lead to equal occupations in those countries focusing the most on gender equality. Thus the goal posts get moved again in search of a 50/50 utopia that will never happen.
- dang 9y agoWe detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14667704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14667704 and marked it off-topic.
- tnone 9y agoThank you for proving the point. Criticism must be punished, even when it's directly addressing raised questions. It is exactly these sorts of actions that create the "hostile excitement" OP was complaining about. Cause and effect is a bitch. All you had to do was not treat the subject as sacred.
- dang 9y agoThat's inaccurate. The problem is that people's passions about the hot generic things are so strong that they blast them into every remotely related context, obliterating the specifics that make a given post interesting. The term 'flamewar' expresses vividly how these dynamics consume everything in sight if allowed to. On HN we're trying not to let that happen.