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This is fascinating: is the internet not as male as we all thought? Is the default assumption that it's male and women have wrapped themselves in the safety of
by niels_olson 13y ago
This is fascinating: is the internet not as male as we all thought? Is the default assumption that it's male and women have wrapped themselves in the safety of the net's ultimate default setting?
- ubernostrum 13y agoSo far as I'm aware, at least since the early 2000s or so, women have contributed the majority of user-created content on the internet. They just don't visibly do it in the few relatively small echo-chamber places HN readers are likely to frequent, so HN readers end up assuming that the internet looks like what they see on HN.