Re:Female Founders Conference Live Stream [video]
by zucchini_head on Friday June 30, 2017 @06:18AM
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I agree that whenever these political topics arise on HN, you generally get the same situation - a few politically unpopular comments being downvoted to oblivion, even if the comment was well formed and wasn't snarky, unnecessarily cruel, etc. Simply saying "I think that this isn't an event that should be encouraged because X, Y, Z reasons", should not be downvoted if they provided interesting insight, reason, logic objective angles, etc.
And as we've seen in this thread, the usual few HN snobs come in making insubstantial points-seeking comments deriding how toxic all those downvoted comments were. I'm rather tired of how a growing number of HN users like to play "morality-police" on these kind of topics.
If anything I found your comment rather insightful, and it's sad to see it downvoted. It has an interesting links to the ongoing Facebook moderation debacle where their ridiculous "minority-ness" rules have been complicated so much that they can be gamed so that you can hate on a certain group because they don't score enough "minority" points, but another very similar group gains "protection status" from hate.
Come get me downvotes, I'm ready!
Let me present a moderate disagreement. I dislike events like this because it can't be made universal. Let say we had a common rule that said: any industry has this bad gender segregation should have exclusive events for the minority gender. Given a 80/20 ratio, this would result in around 30% of all industries which employs about 40% of all people in my nation. A significant amount of events would turn either exclusive male or female, with the majority being exclusive male, and I personally doubt it would have a positive outcome on society. I am open to be convinced otherwise.