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Re:Oh my god, it's a girl -- thoughts on gender imbalance on HN by dextorious on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @09:26AM (#3447002)
TL;DR: We declare beforehand, without consulting any science (including Sociology and History), that men and women should have absolutely the same interests, and then lament about the existence of fields where men and women are not equally represented and condemn them as sexist.

Different groups of people have different priorities, likes and such. Not even Democrats vs Republicans -- even women vs men, black vs white, etc. Whenever you can make a distinction between two groups, you have attributes group A has that B does not.

Not everything is because there is some power at play keeping A/B different, and A/B not being absolutely interchangeable is not always a problem.

Get over it.

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Re:Oh my god, it's a girl -- thoughts on gender imbalance on HN by AndrewDucker on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @09:32AM (#3447032)
The article doesn't say anything like that, and doesn't lament that men and women aren't equally represented.
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Re:Oh my god, it's a girl -- thoughts on gender imbalance on HN by dextorious on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @10:58AM (#3447370)
As I explicitly wrote: "TL;DR;".

Tons of other articles on the same matter do, and though I saved myself some time.

Now I have to go read TFA. Thanks for nothing, killjoy.

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