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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by api on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:25PM (#26244444)
A friend of mine got on a programming forum once and pretended to be female. The result was far cringier than I would have predicted.
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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by abadcwm on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:29PM (#26244492)
Similarly, I remember seeing some pretty awful comments on HN threads regarding female programmers.

Comment after comment shitting on their achievements, presumably from mediocre men who feel threatened by a successful woman in the field.

Not just here either. It's an industry-wide problem.

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