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Not “a woman”. “The woman”
by ginko 6y ago
Not “a woman”. “The woman”
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- lopmotr 6y agoHow about "The Jew"? Or just "the person" and stop glorifying people for the biological bits they're born with but rather for what they use their free will to do.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't post flamebait to HN. We don't need yet another generic flamewar about this stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- metiscus 6y agoIt is a crowning achievement of a life spent developing many other important drugs still in use. She almost certainly didn't do it as the only woman in her lab but she was at the front of getting women recognized in the field of biochemistry and drug development. Nothing of what I said should detract from her achievement, in fact the title seems to miss that she did something quite a bit more important prior to this particular achievement.
- dang 6y agoThat's a software thing. Most titles that say "the man who" or "the woman who" use the definite article as a clickbait trick so HN's debaiter rewrites them. Occasionally it ought to be the other way and we correct those back. Btw if you submit a title and the software rewrites it in a way that damages the meaning, you can always change it back using the 'edit' link. Just please don't use that to make it baity again. Edit: I've changed it again to include the actual name of "the woman" and the phrase that (according to the article) she used to describe her own work. That seems much better than "the woman who gave the world", and also more respectful.