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Men getting antagonistic when their sexist behavior is called out is not the fault of the women calling that behavior out.
> Men getting antagonistic when their sexist behavior is called out That isn't all that happens, as you can see from the comments like "Oh, yes, men have it so hard " whenever a situation that favors females over males is brought up.
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You have absolutely zero evidence or basis for your assumption. The truth is that nobody has any idea what people's motivations were for upvoting it, but it deserved to be upvoted. The only person who has made this conversation sexist is you and those who brought the topic up.
I have plenty of evidence and basis in experience, and anyone can see exactly what I mean by following what I mentioned above. >The only person who has made this conversation sexist is you and those who brought the topic up. Ah yes, the same thing that anyone steeped in unchecked privilege says when they've got nothing left to argue. Black people are racist for complaining about discrimination, feminists are sexist f…
The actual best thing about this post being in first place on Hacker News is not that it's a woman posting but that she has a Y chromosome and most people don't realize it.
It's like her recently-acquired vagina is a new laptop to be hacked. It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify yourself.
The real goal of this post is to get a bunch of men to fantasize about "her" and glorify how cool "she" is for being a geeky hacker.
Not all trans(vestite|gender|sexual) people are like this.
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No need for stereotypes. The article deserves to be up voted because it is remarkably thorough and well written.
I agree that it deserves to be upvoted for those reasons. I just don't think that's necessarily the primary reason it has been upvoted. Examining the "would this be ranked this high if it were about penis hacking instead?" question is productive because it addresses that.
So do you always assume bad faith on the part of others or..?
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My deleted comment was "I don't think the majority thinks like that" , which i deleted because i don't have data to back it up. But after reading your reply, what the hell dude/gal? Can't it be that people upvoted the article because sexy subject+technology is double win? Can't it be because i am actually jealous i haven't hacked my penis yet? And i'm not even a Feminist. Now your theory about guilt and nerdgirl fant…
>Can't it be that people upvoted the article because sexy subject+technology is double win? Can't it be because i am actually jealous i haven't hacked my penis yet? Yeah, it can be. I just doubt that it is . Sure, that may be the case for some people, but I'm talking about majority behavior, not universal behavior. >And i'm not even a feminist. That is apparent. >Now your theory about guilt and nerdgirl fantasies...…
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You have absolutely zero evidence or basis for your assumption. The truth is that nobody has any idea what people's motivations were for upvoting it, but it deserved to be upvoted. The only person who has made this conversation sexist is you and those who brought the topic up.
I have plenty of evidence and basis in experience, and anyone can see exactly what I mean by following what I mentioned above. >The only person who has made this conversation sexist is you and those who brought the topic up. Ah yes, the same thing that anyone steeped in unchecked privilege says when they've got nothing left to argue. Black people are racist for complaining about discrimination, feminists are sexist f…
Look, we really really don't need every single Goddamn topic that involves females to turn into an ultrafeminist soapbox. At the very least it seems to attract a certain amount of crazy negativity (see SRS on Reddit), at best it's highly offtopic. This is Hacker News, not Feminist News.
Here you're judged by the coolness of what you do, not your gender.
This is not meant to be a troll post, but just sincere curiosity. From the site "My full name is Micah Elizabeth Scott, but I used to be Micah Dowty prior to Fall 2010. My friends call me Beth." How can a woman who used to be a man can have a vagina? is there some kind of surgery? do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?
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I can't wait for easily and cheaply 3d-printed electronics. Just the thought of buying the parts and plastic stuff, putting them in a machine, and letting it work, building a complete device. I can dream.
Well, the more I looked into this possibility, the more I think it's not going to look like traditional electronics that we know. Chances are, somebody's working on this right now, and we just don't know about it. There's been some promising blips here and there with the reprappers: http://blog.reprap.org/2011/06/new-approach-to-printing-meta... http://blog.reprap.org/2012/04/some-more-printed-circuitry.h...
However, I couldn't help being reminded of this comic: http://xkcd.com/196/ I feel like there's a lot of social factors that would make using an invention like this a little awkward. Maybe that's just me?
Warning: this is not a politically correct viewpoint, but nevertheless it's my perspective. The actual best thing about this post being in first place on Hacker News is not that it's a woman posting but that she has a Y chromosome and most people don't realize it. It's like her recently-acquired vagina is a new laptop to be hacked. It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify you…
Also she's queer, so the idea that she's doing it for male attention is pretty funny really.