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You were comparing her by proxy with yourself >”that I tend to get attention for all the wrong reasons routed in my gender.” You’re clearly trying to imply th
by BoorishBears 7y ago
You were comparing her by proxy with yourself
>”that I tend to get attention for all the wrong reasons routed in my gender.”
You’re clearly trying to imply the merit for her would be the fact she’s a black female, why even bother trying to imply otherwise
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI engaged the comment with a comment of my own out of respect, not hostility. If I really desired to shut the discussion down, I would not have added to it. I would have flagged it and downvoted it. I appear to be the highest ranked openly female member on Hacker News. I appear to be the only openly female member to have ever spent time on the leader board. I was homeless for nearly six years. I hit the leader board about a month after getting back into housing. So I got most of that karma while homeless -- while I was extremely dirt poor and something of a social outcast. I'm sympathetic to the OPs frustrations. I left the comment out of a desire to be supportive. I realized I was taking a chance and the odds were fairly high that it would be wildly misunderstood to be the exact opposite of my intentions. I did it anyway because I felt it mattered. I don't really intend to engage you further.
- BoorishBears 7y agoYou haven’t engaged with anything I said, just listed fairly meaningless things that, I don’t know, were supposed to garner sympathy? Or maybe somehow hardship qualifies you to downplay the incredible acts she committed with “I hate when people do the same thing to me because my being female is totally comparable to being a black female at NASA in pre-desegregation south”? So don’t worry, you won’t be engaging with me at all.