> There's no reverse sexism at play here, just good old > fashioned regular sexism, where a commenter assumed that > the author of something insightful was

> There's no reverse sexism at play here, just good old > fashioned regular sexism, where a commenter assumed that > the author of something insightful was a man. No sexism there. Given the number of men in science vs. that of women it is pretty safe bet probability-wise. > This attitude (and your response to it) goes a long way > to explaining why computerland is such a sausage party. It explains absolutely nothing. Girls not going to some field because of the attitude of people they don't know because they are not in the field yet? And "sausage party" deserves a flag, imho.