Vagina rocks! This topic would never get so much attention if this would be 'Hacking my ... nose, knee, hand etc..'.
Some star topics are easy to predict.
Nerds have their own weaknesses
Hacking my Vagina
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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.
It probably would be (assuming the ban on penis-related article titles could be circumvented). This is actually a seriously good article of the kind that frequently get upvoted and I don't think this case has much to do with gender.
It has everything to do with gender, a man hacking a fleshlight would get none or almost none upvotes, I bet it would even get flagged by a few. Its a predictable fantasy of the average reader of HN, the equivalent of a photo of a pretty woman doing charity with a cat in reddit.
Is not only the fact that she is a woman, is the surrounding context of a sexual stimulation device that provoque so many upvotes. Personally I would downvote this if I could, I don't like my tech articles biased by hormones.
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#143Hey, this is beth from scanlime.org. I was doing my best to keep the site up, but it looks like Dreamhost just pulled the plug. I'm pretty annoyed with this.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
>I just don't think that's necessarily the primary reason it has been upvoted. So do you always assume bad faith on the part of others or..?
Being biologically biased is not "bad faith", is just a well known human trait.
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What we need is a Kickstarter for this stuff, or some sort of prize or bounty system. I don't even know how long I've been reading about individuals online trying to design Random Vibrators (changing speeds in an un-learnable pattern to prevent acclimation, obviously not as simple as sending random numbers to the motor) and various individuals claiming to have homebrewed the even more legendary Intelligent Vibrator (…
In terms of kickstarters for adult stuff, there's 2 already. http://offbeatr.com/ http://www.passionateproduce.com/ And companies like lovepalz ( http://lovepalz.com ) and vibease ( http://vibease.com , where the hell ARE you in this thread, Dema! I know it's like stupid AM over in Singapore but get on here and market, damnit :) ) are co-opting the "kickstarter look" even though they aren't running as actual crowdfun…
haha! I'm here qdot! Thanks for mentioned Vibease.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was praying that one was sarcasm...
> I was praying that one was sarcasm... It's part of a culture, one men perpetrate just as much as women if not more, that says "women are the only victims of sexism." If that statement doesn't seem immediately idiotic to you, the best I can offer right now is this: http://www.alternet.org/story/156194/what_about_the_men_why_...
No one says that. No one here is saying that. To portray the reaction that has taken place here, scoffing because it is female and sexual, is in and of itself sexist.
Reverse discrimination sucks for whites, maybe I should question every submission that is authored by someone who isn't white?
You'll note that I address male taboos about sex in other posts, but ironically it's probably not what you want or what you're really getting at without being explicit about.
Do you understand that "any female-positive topic" -> "what about the menz" is exactly the problem with this attitude?
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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…
> And i'm not even a Feminist. Careful with this: A number of people think that 'feminist' means 'in favor of gender equality', so if you distance yourself from any kind of feminism you're painted as being against gender equality. Also, in their minds no form of feminism is possibly counter to gender equality, even the feminists who think less of women who want to be housewives.
Wow, what a round about way to attack feminism. You have a chip on your shoulder up and down this thread. It's good that you can manage to dismiss it and feel superior about it and pretend you're the moral superiority and champion of gender equality.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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#149I'd be interested in seeing this device have it's data outputted to a graph to see what kind of pressures someone finds most agreeable. That way you don't have to fiddle with every device after that. Also, as someone mentioned, it would be a great way to create a preset based on your mood. The data could be correlated on your emotional state, by entering a standard 0 unhappy 10 extremely happy. And then monitoring though a period of maybe six months so you know when your libido is the highest. As a male, I'd love to have my biorhythms matched to a device that would basically "know" my preference based on the time of day / year. I suffer from SAD and masturbation tends to help. Not to mention it would be a kewl hack to have a chart showing you the times your most likely to be sexually aroused so you can plan around it with your significant other.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...…
Your presumption that it is is sexist in and of itself, how is that not apparent at this point? Your projecting, plain and simple.