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> classic privileged tantrum just... wow. Can anyone point to a man ever being labelled in such a way on HN? Edit: comparing the number of comment hits for "
by IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
> classic privileged tantrum
just... wow. Can anyone point to a man ever being labelled in such a way on HN?
Edit: comparing the number of comment hits for " his tantrum" vs " her tantrum" to the relative numbers for " his " and " her " shows that "tantrum" is, indeed, used 2.5 times as often to describe women as it is for men.
- yongjik 6y agoFWIW, searching for "musk tantrum" gives 24 comments. (Musk is a known nutcase, though, so it may be an unfair comparison.)
- marton78 6y agoThe price suspect I think about when I hear "tantrum" is Trump, so I don't know...
- FeepingCreature 6y agoIt's not automatically a given that women don't do things that get labelled as tantrums at a higher rate. To demonstrate this is sexist, you would have to show that people judge the same behavior as tantrum or not tantrum at a different rate depending on the specified gender. Which may well be the case, in which case please link the study. To turn it around: an interesting self-experiment is to try flipping the pronouns in the story and seeing if your internal reaction to it changes.