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How would you know who is upvoting this story? As a man, am I not allowed to upvote this article? Why divide us into men and women in the first place?

corethree 3y ago
By statistics and common sense. Men and women are different and behave differently. Certainly more women would vote this up. Doesn't preclude men from doing it, but I imagine it would be far less. Just a educated guess based on demographics. Just like saying conservatives vote for trump or liberals vote for Biden. The generality is true even if the pedantic technicality is not.
Rapzid 3y ago
There is no way to know.
- corethree 3y ago
  But you can make an educated guess that's quite likely to be true.
fnordpiglet 3y ago
It’s interesting, I read it as a note addressing the women up voting rather than a note asserting only women are upvoting. Surely it’s reasonable there are in fact women reading HN and upvoting? But, maybe you’re right and they’re that type of uppity woman. Edit: and the original comment was flagged and removed for shouting out to the women of HN.
- zemvpferreira 3y ago
  I still find the attitude gross. Would the women of HN not upvote an article on Rust, or serverless architectures? What's with these gender stereotypes in a community of hackers? Not all men are brutes and not all women are ditzy. I can't believe this needs to be said. Anyone can like anything.
  - fnordpiglet 3y ago
    I would assume rust is gender neutral, but disproportionately speaking to rust developers or people otherwise aligned to rust. I would assume an article about women and their culture history to be interesting to everyone (hopefully!), but particularly those it’s about. But more specifically there’s no reputation of the tech community being overtly hostile to rust developers, but a rich and storied history of being overtly hostile to women. And especially hostile to women pointing out the pervasive hostility towards women.
  - corethree 3y ago
    Not all men are brutes and not all women are ditzy. But more men then women are brutes. That's a reasonable statement. Are more women than men ditzy? No that's sexist. Either way anyone can like anything but you can still make a reasonable guess based off of common sense on what demographic is most likely to vote this up. There's nothing wrong with that. The only problem here is people like you who want to turn a reasonable estimate into a sexist issue.

corethree 3y ago

By statistics and common sense. Men and women are different and behave differently. Certainly more women would vote this up. Doesn't preclude men from doing it, but I imagine it would be far less. Just a educated guess based on demographics. Just like saying conservatives vote for trump or liberals vote for Biden. The generality is true even if the pedantic technicality is not.

Rapzid 3y ago

There is no way to know.

corethree 3y ago
But you can make an educated guess that's quite likely to be true.

fnordpiglet 3y ago

It’s interesting, I read it as a note addressing the women up voting rather than a note asserting only women are upvoting. Surely it’s reasonable there are in fact women reading HN and upvoting? But, maybe you’re right and they’re that type of uppity woman. Edit: and the original comment was flagged and removed for shouting out to the women of HN.

zemvpferreira 3y ago
I still find the attitude gross. Would the women of HN not upvote an article on Rust, or serverless architectures? What's with these gender stereotypes in a community of hackers? Not all men are brutes and not all women are ditzy. I can't believe this needs to be said. Anyone can like anything.
- fnordpiglet 3y ago
  I would assume rust is gender neutral, but disproportionately speaking to rust developers or people otherwise aligned to rust. I would assume an article about women and their culture history to be interesting to everyone (hopefully!), but particularly those it’s about. But more specifically there’s no reputation of the tech community being overtly hostile to rust developers, but a rich and storied history of being overtly hostile to women. And especially hostile to women pointing out the pervasive hostility towards women.
- corethree 3y ago
  Not all men are brutes and not all women are ditzy. But more men then women are brutes. That's a reasonable statement. Are more women than men ditzy? No that's sexist. Either way anyone can like anything but you can still make a reasonable guess based off of common sense on what demographic is most likely to vote this up. There's nothing wrong with that. The only problem here is people like you who want to turn a reasonable estimate into a sexist issue.