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Re:Ask HN: What about women on HN? by thisone on Sunday December 03, 2017 @08:20AM (#15837461)
I see no reason in that for anyone to assume an entire internet forum to be exclusively one gender. Someone sees a set of interactions that they assume to be between a single gender, so they assume everyone is that gender?
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Re:Ask HN: What about women on HN? by mbrock on Sunday December 03, 2017 @08:36AM (#15837500)
The original poster is saying "somehow in my head HN posters appear as male". That doesn't really mean the poster is assuming that HN is actually 100% male. It's a description of his or her imaginative process, which is a matter of great psychological and sociological complexity.
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