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Re:Interview with Hillary Mason, Chief Scientist of Bit.ly by cjoh on Thursday March 24, 2011 @02:15PM (#2365215)
Wow, sexist much?

I've met Hillary a couple times now. She's a woman. She's also quite brilliant. Check out the umbrella she invented:

http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/4/20/to-end-the-cheap-umbrell...

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Re:Interview with Hillary Mason, Chief Scientist of Bit.ly by gaius on Thursday March 24, 2011 @04:21PM (#2365754)
Hillary can be a boys or a girls name. Like Lesley.
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Re:Interview with Hillary Mason, Chief Scientist of Bit.ly by nandemo on Thursday March 24, 2011 @10:04PM (#2366884)
Yes, but apparently a lot of people here (or maybe a lot of people in US, I wouldn't know) believe that if you assume that [person who works at male-dominated field] is a man, then you're being sexist, even when the assumption about the gender is totally unrelated to the topic in question.
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