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With respect, and not to belabor a silly topic, but 'female' is an adjective, and is the only correct choice between those three options in the original sentenc

With respect, and not to belabor a silly topic, but 'female' is an adjective, and is the only correct choice between those three options in the original sentence. Although I would tend to agree that as collective nouns are concerned, 'women/men' is almost always correct when describing adult humans when one wants to specify a particular sex or gender. (Girls/boys/kids rustles my jimmies when used to describe adults). 'female wunderkind,' in an irrational, razzle-dazzle bullshit train like theranos was probably emphasized to create an aura of exoticism and magic (e.g. 'wonder woman'), not because of the sociocultural situation of women in tech broadly speaking. The symbolic significance of gender changes depending on where/how one invokes it.

sillysaurus3 9y ago
'female wunderkind,' in an irrational, razzle-dazzle bullshit train like theranos was probably emphasized to create an aura of exoticism and magic (e.g. 'wonder woman'), not because of the sociocultural situation of women in tech broadly speaking. I didn't even consider this. You're probably right. Well, in that context, it was obviously absurd for me to start talking about any of this. Sorry about that. But HN is optimized for good conversation, so hopefully it will turn out interesting (if unexpected). Looks like this thread got knocked off the front page anyway, so it doesn't really matter now. Drat; I was hoping to get people's thoughts on this.