This is just human psychology of being on the winning side of an imbalanced market with limited supply, it's not a man vs woman phenomenon. If you were a senio

This is just human psychology of being on the winning side of an imbalanced market with limited supply, it's not a man vs woman phenomenon. If you were a senior SWE with sexy credentials in the Bay during its latest tech boom, say between 2010 and 2020, you were inundated daily with recruiter spam and offers to join sketchy early stage startups that were clearly never going to take off. Were you nice to those recruiters? Did you take the time to gracefully let them know that you weren't interested in that specific opportunity, wishing them good luck in their search? Maybe the first time? Maybe the first ten times? But after hundreds, possibly thousands of those requests years later, it becomes a joke, you start seeing them at the same level as Nigerian prince scammers, they're not even fully human in your mind.