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> A lot of the very intelligent men you find hanging out in certain types of online forums (like Hacker News) are very introverted and just awkward arou

• filoeleven 13y ago
  Maybe. You have to keep in mind though that the two situations are not equivalent. Men have been the "in group" for a long time, and as members of the in group there are a lot of social dynamics that we don't tend to have a deep understanding of. See the parable of the old fish asking the young, "How's the water?" Conversely, as "outsiders" who are greatly affected by the dynamics of the in group, women have had more of a reason to pay attention to the group dynamics of men for a long time. They are more likely to have a sense of these things, conscious or not. The same dynamic happens any time there is a minority. Black people tend to be more astute observers of white people's behavior than the reverse because a white person is more likely to live their life without having to understand how to get what they want from the black folks who have the power, while the reverse is less often true.