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I find your argument compelling, and IMO you should not be scared to get banned from HN for that kind of comment. It‘s actually in line with many other comments
by manmal 8y ago
I find your argument compelling, and IMO you should not be scared to get banned from HN for that kind of comment. It‘s actually in line with many other comments here.
I too feel that there are not enough women commenting here. The discussions would be more complete and interesting if that wasn’t the case. We obviously only get a half of the picture without female participation.
It’s offtopic, but since you asked for it. Being highly controversial/polarizing does often help growing an audience, I‘ve seen this time and again. I don’t know how long you have been doing what you are doing now, but I heard growing an audience for a YT channel/blog/etc takes a couple of years of continuous effort, posting as much as possible. I mean, pewdiepie (whatever one thinks about him) uploads every single day.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoBeing highly controversial/polarizing does often help growing an audience, Yeah, I keep hearing that. That hasn't worked for me. I get three things out of it: 1. Banned from multiple forums. 2. All the utter and complete loonies who think I can fix them or will be their one true love cyberstalk me but won't fucking admit it, so it doesn't even get my stuff promoted. 3. I've spent years living in fear of being literally locked up in an insane asylum and thereby killed, like Semmelweis, because the most controversial detail about me is that I have atypical cystic fibrosis and I'm drug free. It's managed with diet and lifestyle, so obviously, I'm insane and making shit up. A former homemaker can't possibly have solved a problem that all the fucking elite MALE doctors and scientist of the planet can't solve, no. Clearly. Among other things, I've spent a lot of years trying to figure out how to stop being a train wreck waiting to happen. I'm really not interested in growing an audience of people getting out the popcorn to watch the lunatic entertain them with her nutty tirades. We can listen to billionaires do that. I'd like a fucking middle class life and to be taken seriously, which is obviously just asking way the fuck too much of the goddamn world. Anyway, I know that doesn't sound like gratitude. I do actually appreciate you replying. But, unfortunately, no, being controversial is not some means for me, personally, to grow an audience and make money. It's just not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
- manmal 8y agoWell, as Audioslave said, be yourself is all that you can do. Everybody has talents that bring value to society. Have you considered that the type of job you are trying to create for yourself is not the right one for you?
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThe world is going to hell in a hand basket. Millionaires and billionaires are taking up the thumb sucking hobby of prepping for the apocalypse. No one else seems to have answers. I'm supposed to say not my problem and go wait tables or look for a rich husband to support me because the world doesn't want to hear solutions from a woman or something?
- manmal 8y agoSounds a bit grandiose, don’t you think?
- DoreenMichele 8y agoSo what are you trying to say here? Only men are allowed to dream big? Women should just plan to remain barefoot and pregnant and not get all uppity and imagine they can do anything of real value in the world? Or are you going to say only currently rich people can dream big. Currently poor people should just stay "humble" and accept their lot in life and not complain too loudly? Or some other dismissive justification as to why I should just accept that no one should listen to me, never mind that I have six years of college and have spent a lot of time studying such issues?