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> Him (it's almost always a dude) I'm curious as to how you know the sex of anonymous posters.
by Banana699 4y ago
> Him (it's almost always a dude)
I'm curious as to how you know the sex of anonymous posters.
- jmfayard 4y agoOn websites where it's anonymous I infer that from what I have seen since 25 years on websites where it's not, and from attitudes people have IRL.
- Banana699 4y agoWhat are the sort of rules you use to derive sex from text? Can you state some?
- jmfayard 4y agoI can't do that in general. Certain attitudes OTOH are heavily gendered, like the psychology behind internet trolls who at the simplest level is that they want everyone's attention to orbit around them.
- Banana699 4y agoDo you think women and girls don't want everyone's attention to orbit around them ?
- jmfayard 4y agoFor women online in particular I'm pretty sure lots of them would rather enjoy less attention on them personally. Too much it not pleasant for _them_. I'm thinking in particular about friends who are content creators, minding her own business and receive comments on her look, insults, sexist comments, unsolicited dick pics, rape and death threats,... I'm sure sexism has nothing to do with that. OK I'm done on this topic. Maybe there are a lots of women behind internet trolls and then I'm wrong, that's an empirical question. My comment was on "strongly disagree" vs "bullshitting"
- Banana699 4y agoMy followup question is why you felt the need to claim that the answer to an empirical question is something that you haven't verified empirically?
- kthejoker2 4y ago100% you are a dude.
- DangitBobby 4y agoMy guess is that HN is mostly men, so you're likely to be right, but probably for the wrong reasons.
- Banana699 4y agoWhat rules you used to infer my sex from the text of my comment?
- jmfayard 4y agoApparently you are really curious about getting to the bottom of this so I did my research. For me it's a vague intuition. But women are much better are recognizing "men talk" than I am. So I asked one woman how she does it and here is her answer > Men make comments without revealing their gender, but we can see the comments are coming from a man's point of view. > How do we know? > We have a lifetime of experience listening to a man's point of view. > In other words, they show their asses much more than they think.