2 women invented fake male co-founder say acting through him was 'night and day'
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#2All we need now is Male Co-Founder as a Service.
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#3Probably worth bearing in mind: I seriously doubt many of the people they interacted with had _any conscious bias whatsoever_. I mean, explicit misogynists exist, but most of us just make judgements on incomplete information, sometimes badly.
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#4To make him even more manly, they called him Keith MANN.
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#5Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127055
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#6Is this a form of wire fraud or would I be able to do this too? Just make up a human and conduct business through them.
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#7"2 men invented fake female Global Head of Sales say acting through her was 'night and day.'"
I'm not arguing that's right. Is the reversal upsetting?
Also, HN bot idea: automatically reverse the gender in headlines.
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#8Probably worth bearing in mind: I seriously doubt many of the people they interacted with had _any conscious bias whatsoever_. I mean, explicit misogynists exist, but most of us just make judgements on incomplete information, sometimes badly.
I wonder if a female name with the same words attached would be met much differently? Maybe they responded to the personality, not the gender.
I think I would, without any malice, relate more closely to someone who was a tech type rather than a business/sales type, regardless of gender.