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how overwhelmingly male it is here
by jdp23 16y ago
how overwhelmingly male it is here
- jdp23 16y agoand how people just don't want to hear it and will vote somebody down when they bring it up ...
- smiler 16y agoIs that a problem?
- jdp23 16y agojust like most of the other stuff being discussed, some people see it as a bug, some as a feature, and some don't care either way
- jscore 16y agoas it would be. I don't know many geeky women.
- Mz 16y agoI know lots of geeky women (and am a geeky woman). I like it here. I'm a little sick of some of the stuff I run into on the female dominated sites I have hung out on for years and years. (Maybe in a few years I will get sick of stuff that goes on here, but, for now at least, it is refreshing.)
- jdp23 16y agoright, my reaction is to wonder whether most of the guys hanging out here don't seem to know many geeky women or seek them out, and are so used to environments where there are almost no women that they don't even notice it. it's true that most programmers are male but the ratio in general isn't as extreme as it is on HN. the FB group seems like it's 95%+ male.