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I'm on the fence, but to play devil's advocate: This is about start ups, it's about hiring and managing different genders, I've seen many great links posted wh

I'm on the fence, but to play devil's advocate: This is about start ups, it's about hiring and managing different genders, I've seen many great links posted which may help managers in start ups deal with gender issues. I've seen great anecdotal stories about managing different genders. Honestly I've seen very little gender flame war, perhaps because the original article was written by a woman.

ripb 12y ago
Well, how do we know it was written by a woman? The post has about as much credibility as an anonymous rant written on a Tumblr blog. It is an anonymous, anecdotal, generalised rant and little more and this type of content, as can be witnessed on a plethora of other popular online fora, tend to lead to the same things repeatedly: - People charging in to furiously counter the generalisation with other shallow personal anecdotes - "Well I have seen men/women do x,y,z!", "In my experience men/women are even worse than men/women at x,y,z!" - People charging in with the "not all men/women" argument - People charging in to back the generalisation up and commit a rant of their own on men/women - etc. But the resounding repeated behaviour is people charging in, emotions on high, to exclaim shallow, generalised and anecdotal stories of their own. Mainly not to discuss the matter, but to push their agenda in the matter. This drives the signal:noise ratio in the wrong direction and, if tolerated, degrades the forum as a whole. I'm not saying that there isn't space for such discussions, but this is not the format for such discussion and only bad can come of it. If anything, mainstream fora have proven to be completely incapable of having rational discussions on gender issues - the more mainstream the less capable (see Reddit.com for example) - and HN is becoming more mainstream as people flood from such sites due to said degradation of the content there.

ripb 12y ago

Well, how do we know it was written by a woman? The post has about as much credibility as an anonymous rant written on a Tumblr blog. It is an anonymous, anecdotal, generalised rant and little more and this type of content, as can be witnessed on a plethora of other popular online fora, tend to lead to the same things repeatedly: - People charging in to furiously counter the generalisation with other shallow personal anecdotes - "Well I have seen men/women do x,y,z!", "In my experience men/women are even worse than men/women at x,y,z!" - People charging in with the "not all men/women" argument - People charging in to back the generalisation up and commit a rant of their own on men/women - etc. But the resounding repeated behaviour is people charging in, emotions on high, to exclaim shallow, generalised and anecdotal stories of their own. Mainly not to discuss the matter, but to push their agenda in the matter. This drives the signal:noise ratio in the wrong direction and, if tolerated, degrades the forum as a whole. I'm not saying that there isn't space for such discussions, but this is not the format for such discussion and only bad can come of it. If anything, mainstream fora have proven to be completely incapable of having rational discussions on gender issues - the more mainstream the less capable (see Reddit.com for example) - and HN is becoming more mainstream as people flood from such sites due to said degradation of the content there.