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'Americans are ignorant' You know he was dying for results that would support this. Why else would they ask such an inane question?

tapworthtg 13y ago
He is a she. There's a big picture of her, and she's called Stacey. Or did you not notice as the page doesn't have a pink background and it's about stats?
- 67726e 13y ago
  Please grow up. It's common for people to default to "he" as when they do not know the gender of the person in question. I didn't even notice the author until you mentioned anything. If anything, your last comment is quite a bit more inflammatory than accidentally referring to a random blogger as a "he".
  - tapworthtg 13y ago
    Fuck you cunt.
    - 67726e 13y ago
      You might want to give the guideleines a read: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - officemonkey 13y ago
      Stay classy, ponyboy.
  - moocowduckquack 13y ago
    It's a common for people to default to "he" as when they do not know the gender of the person in question. It says "by Stacy" at the top of the article and there's a picture of her next to it. Being unsure of the authorship after reading it would seem lazy at best.
    - 67726e 13y ago
      I just tend to tune out whatever is on the sidebar of a website as it tends to be ads or other things I probably don't care enough to read. As for the "by Stacy", well it is rather small and gray. Of course I have a feeling the poster of the comment that sparked this little flame-war didn't read the article.
      - DanBC 13y ago
        defending a sexist assumption by claiming a lack of attention to detail and an unwillingness to read the whole pages feels sub-optimal.
        67726e 13y ago
        Again, I don't really see using "he" as sexist. It's just the English language. From Merriam-Webster: 1: prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women 2: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex I can understand an argument that the author of the comment said "he" because of some assumption that anyone doing stats must be a man. However I'm making the counterargument that using "he" is a standard default in English and that such usage is not sexist, but rather as a result of how the English language is used.
        moocowduckquack 13y ago
        That's an astoundingly crap argument. You are saying that using he as a default isn't sexist because it is a default. However saying that a default position is a default position tells us very little indeed and nothing whatsoever about if that default position is sexist.
        67726e 13y ago
        Perhaps we're coming at the situation from different viewpoints. You appear to be judging the situation based off of how "he" came to be a default while I'm coming at the situation from the viewpoint of intentions. Honestly, I caught myself using "he" several times writing this response but went back and "refactored" my response. Does the fact that I use "he" automatically make me a sexist? No. That's just how everyone around me spoke English and thus how I learned to use it.
- coldtea 13y ago
  He probably wanted to pad the stats.
- MaulingMonkey 13y ago
  Personally, once the site stopped 500ing on me outright, I certainly didn't pick out her face in the sidebar full of social networking icons, random facebook faces, and navigation links until I went looking for it. Then again, I didn't pick out the entire sidebar. I had a hard time finding her name on the page even looking for it. It's not a signature, but tucked away nearer to the top between the blog title and more social networking noise, in light grey text on white background, in a completely separate column from the profile pic. Perhaps if Facebook like buttons alone didn't out-number her name 4:1 (whether or not you count the comments) it'd be easier to notice these things...
- PencilAndPaper 13y ago
  I totally relate to your frustration here, but you are being petty in your reaction. If you would like to change the way the language works, hostile personal attacks are more likely to turn people against your cause.

tapworthtg 13y ago

He is a she. There's a big picture of her, and she's called Stacey. Or did you not notice as the page doesn't have a pink background and it's about stats?

67726e 13y ago
Please grow up. It's common for people to default to "he" as when they do not know the gender of the person in question. I didn't even notice the author until you mentioned anything. If anything, your last comment is quite a bit more inflammatory than accidentally referring to a random blogger as a "he".
- tapworthtg 13y ago
  Fuck you cunt.
  - 67726e 13y ago
    You might want to give the guideleines a read: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - officemonkey 13y ago
    Stay classy, ponyboy.
- moocowduckquack 13y ago
  It's a common for people to default to "he" as when they do not know the gender of the person in question. It says "by Stacy" at the top of the article and there's a picture of her next to it. Being unsure of the authorship after reading it would seem lazy at best.
  - 67726e 13y ago
    I just tend to tune out whatever is on the sidebar of a website as it tends to be ads or other things I probably don't care enough to read. As for the "by Stacy", well it is rather small and gray. Of course I have a feeling the poster of the comment that sparked this little flame-war didn't read the article.
    - DanBC 13y ago
      defending a sexist assumption by claiming a lack of attention to detail and an unwillingness to read the whole pages feels sub-optimal.
      - 67726e 13y ago
        Again, I don't really see using "he" as sexist. It's just the English language. From Merriam-Webster: 1: prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women 2: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex I can understand an argument that the author of the comment said "he" because of some assumption that anyone doing stats must be a man. However I'm making the counterargument that using "he" is a standard default in English and that such usage is not sexist, but rather as a result of how the English language is used.
        moocowduckquack 13y ago
        That's an astoundingly crap argument. You are saying that using he as a default isn't sexist because it is a default. However saying that a default position is a default position tells us very little indeed and nothing whatsoever about if that default position is sexist.
        67726e 13y ago
        Perhaps we're coming at the situation from different viewpoints. You appear to be judging the situation based off of how "he" came to be a default while I'm coming at the situation from the viewpoint of intentions. Honestly, I caught myself using "he" several times writing this response but went back and "refactored" my response. Does the fact that I use "he" automatically make me a sexist? No. That's just how everyone around me spoke English and thus how I learned to use it.
coldtea 13y ago
He probably wanted to pad the stats.
MaulingMonkey 13y ago
Personally, once the site stopped 500ing on me outright, I certainly didn't pick out her face in the sidebar full of social networking icons, random facebook faces, and navigation links until I went looking for it. Then again, I didn't pick out the entire sidebar. I had a hard time finding her name on the page even looking for it. It's not a signature, but tucked away nearer to the top between the blog title and more social networking noise, in light grey text on white background, in a completely separate column from the profile pic. Perhaps if Facebook like buttons alone didn't out-number her name 4:1 (whether or not you count the comments) it'd be easier to notice these things...
PencilAndPaper 13y ago
I totally relate to your frustration here, but you are being petty in your reaction. If you would like to change the way the language works, hostile personal attacks are more likely to turn people against your cause.