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Sorry, you couldn't be further from the truth. I was objecting to her because she was bad, not because she's a young woman. Also, as to the whole "taking it s

Sorry, you couldn't be further from the truth. I was objecting to her because she was bad, not because she's a young woman. Also, as to the whole "taking it seriously" part: please don't confuse genuine disagreement (I think you're very, very wrong) with prejudice. I don't take your comment as a personal attack, but rather as grossly misguided. I'm not offended by the labels of sexism and ageism, principally because I think they have no merit. There're plenty of young women who could have done a great job in this interview; she is not one of them.

erikpukinskis 15y ago
Thanks for your reply. Like I said, all I have is my suspicions. I don't claim to know the truth. I don't think any of us really does. However, when you say "you couldn't be further from the truth", is that the result of you rewatching the video, while considering the possibility that you might, in part, as I qualified from the beginning, be seeing her differently than you'd see a man? Or is it the result of your immediate reaction, because of your uninterruptable certainty that you surely would never do something so sexist? Just curious. If you've genuinely considered the possibility, that's all I can reasonably ask. For my part, I'm happy to have raised my suspicion, even though HN obviously thinks quite lowly of this line of thought.
- zacharycohn 15y ago
  Not everything comes down to gender wars. Isn't it best to judge someone not on the color of their skin or what they have in their pants, but by the quality of their work? If their work (in this case, an interview) is bad, then it's bad. It doesn't matter if the interviewer is 14 or 40, male or female.
  - philwelch 15y ago
    A fanatic can't change his mind and won't change the subject. That's why every internet argument eventually turns into a debate about the merits of some popular fanaticism, be it libertarianism, feminism, or whatever else.
- biot 15y ago
  Man up and own your words. You went on for several paragraphs calling hkmurakami out for sexism and ageism, yet you now backpedal and claim not to know the truth and that nobody does. If you really believed that you would not have posted your original reply since you wouldn't have known the truth about what hkmurakami was thinking.
  - erikpukinskis 15y ago
    "I suspect" "my hunch" And I stand by it. Feel free to email me if you want to discuss further (erik@snowedin.net) but I'm backpedaling on nothing. And all three of them of course were thinking totally innocent thoughts. Sexism is rarely conscious these days.
    - mike-cardwell 15y ago
      I suspect that you're an ass, and my hunch is that you're smug and self righteous.
      - redthrowaway 15y ago
        That's not particularly helpful.
        mike-cardwell 15y ago
        He claimed that sticking "I suspect" and "my hunch" in his comment meant that his comment wasn't an insult. I demonstrated how his claim was false.

erikpukinskis 15y ago

Thanks for your reply. Like I said, all I have is my suspicions. I don't claim to know the truth. I don't think any of us really does. However, when you say "you couldn't be further from the truth", is that the result of you rewatching the video, while considering the possibility that you might, in part, as I qualified from the beginning, be seeing her differently than you'd see a man? Or is it the result of your immediate reaction, because of your uninterruptable certainty that you surely would never do something so sexist? Just curious. If you've genuinely considered the possibility, that's all I can reasonably ask. For my part, I'm happy to have raised my suspicion, even though HN obviously thinks quite lowly of this line of thought.

zacharycohn 15y ago
Not everything comes down to gender wars. Isn't it best to judge someone not on the color of their skin or what they have in their pants, but by the quality of their work? If their work (in this case, an interview) is bad, then it's bad. It doesn't matter if the interviewer is 14 or 40, male or female.
- philwelch 15y ago
  A fanatic can't change his mind and won't change the subject. That's why every internet argument eventually turns into a debate about the merits of some popular fanaticism, be it libertarianism, feminism, or whatever else.
biot 15y ago
Man up and own your words. You went on for several paragraphs calling hkmurakami out for sexism and ageism, yet you now backpedal and claim not to know the truth and that nobody does. If you really believed that you would not have posted your original reply since you wouldn't have known the truth about what hkmurakami was thinking.
- erikpukinskis 15y ago
  "I suspect" "my hunch" And I stand by it. Feel free to email me if you want to discuss further (erik@snowedin.net) but I'm backpedaling on nothing. And all three of them of course were thinking totally innocent thoughts. Sexism is rarely conscious these days.
  - mike-cardwell 15y ago
    I suspect that you're an ass, and my hunch is that you're smug and self righteous.
    - redthrowaway 15y ago
      That's not particularly helpful.
      - mike-cardwell 15y ago
        He claimed that sticking "I suspect" and "my hunch" in his comment meant that his comment wasn't an insult. I demonstrated how his claim was false.