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A comment on Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and black people?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by xerophtye on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @12:28AM (#6879127)
I am confused, where exactly do you see this hostility? I thought the hacker community is welcome to everyone. In fact, i am not a white male. Most people i know aren't white males. A very large number of visitors of HN are probably not white males. But we're all respectful towards each other here. In fact of all the forums online, I actually find HN to be the least biased/racist/sexist. Just the other day, that post by Julia Evans about writing an OS received such positive feedback. I didn't see a single comment that discredited her for being a female. In fact when one commenter accidentally called her a "he", he was put down by the others for his mistake, saying that it is very disrespectful to assume the poster of a Tech blog is a male by default.

So i don't see really what hostility you are pointing towards. Some examples would be welcome.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by thenerdfiles on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @01:33AM (#6879327)
There's a huge social network that makes up programming which exists outside of HN and networks like it. That said, what about the problems of Big Companies? These companies largely continue to allow these "hostilities" to persist. It's the problem of "mixed talent".
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by xerophtye on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @02:31AM (#6879451)
Umm... I can't think of any color-examples at the moment, but as for the females and big companies thing, well, Yahoo's CEO is a female. Google's Security head is a female (last i checked).

Apart from big companies, DefCon's team has a lot of females in it. So the "HackerScene" isn't just about males

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by thenerdfiles on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @11:12AM (#6888342)
They're exceptions to the rule of experience; or else there wouldn't be much point behind the feminist movement.

I mean, I understand your point... But it really is akin to saying we're in a post-racial America because the American President is Black.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by jd0 on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @01:13AM (#6879267)
I know discussion here is reasonable, and that's partially why I brought it up here on HN vs anywhere else, but check my recent comment for clarification:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6879195

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