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To be fair, this makes male hackers feel unwelcome too. I opened the page, thought "I'm not being caught with this open at work", and came here to deride the author. That's nice work, Lou...

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I felt uncomfortable with it as a male hacker as well, though the story is actually interesting.

Either he's actually naïve enough not to know that he's being offensive or he's devious enough to be using it as troll bait.

What's the advantage of trolling in this form? All he's achieved are a few one-liner comments saying he's an idiot.

Victory?

"all publicity is good publicity".

Piss people off == more visits == more sales?

piss people off == less links == less visits == less sales. clearly their is a fine line, but I think the best link baiters lead with a premise that is outrageous, and content that is pretty agreeable.

i don't see what the problem is, to be honest

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