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Comment by matte_black | Hacker News Reader

I don’t think your gender plays as large of a factor as you think. I think most people do not make any sort of money or connections through HN, even if they are plain straight white males.

The ones that have made fortunes off of here could probably do it through any other place just as easily.

Hell, some days I feel like I can’t even get a word in, and I’m the epitome of a Silicon Valley straight white male.

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I replied to give my opinion as to why you were down voted. Your response is to be essentially personally dismissive of me. Meanwhile, I am currently downvoted to zero and pretty much expecting to be ROFLstomped for daring to say anything.

I will reiterate that this is exactly why I think you were down voted: someone disagrees with you, doesn't care to engage you in discussion about it and doesn't care to deal with the fallout from voicing disagreement in an overwhelmingly male forum that will generally be sympathetic to your concerns.

If sexism is not an issue here, where are the other 16+ openly female members of the leaderboard?

Piss on me as an individual all you like, but the data does not support an assertion that gender is irrelevant on HN.

There are probably not many women here because it's not fun to be on a forum full of finance-obsessed manchildren and brogrammers unless you are one or identify as one. The actual benefits from being on HN are basically null, yet most men who use it think it'll improve their careers. It won't, but it helps sama and paul graham.

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