How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too)

Re:How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too) by ahelwer on Monday July 23, 2012 @03:05PM (#4282525)

Wow, I have to say this was a pretty disgusting comment. Didn't expect to see this on HN.

If you start your post off with any variant of "from an evolutionary psychological standpoint" in a thread about sexism/feminist issues you need to seriously consider not clicking the "add comment" button. Also, look up "projection". I can honestly tell you that no, the reason I support women in tech is absolutely not so I can "get babes."

Really, your post was unbelievable.

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Re:How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too) by alphamerik on Monday July 23, 2012 @03:23PM (#4282626)

Thanks for pointing this out, because between the multitude of posts in this forum and the posts which I responded to on the blog, I feel like I am taking crazy pills. What is the big deal here? Seems like so many of my peers have deep seated psychological problems (not like I don't, but damn).

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Re:How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too) by ahelwer on Monday July 23, 2012 @03:33PM (#4282672)

Misogyny is unfortunately scarily prevalent. All we can do is call people out on it. If there isn't social backlash they'll never question their worldview.

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