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Edit: and the original comment was flagged and removed for shouting out to the women of HN.
Not all men are brutes and not all women are ditzy. I can't believe this needs to be said. Anyone can like anything.
I would assume an article about women and their culture history to be interesting to everyone (hopefully!), but particularly those it’s about. But more specifically there’s no reputation of the tech community being overtly hostile to rust developers, but a rich and storied history of being overtly hostile to women. And especially hostile to women pointing out the pervasive hostility towards women.
But more men then women are brutes. That's a reasonable statement.
Are more women than men ditzy? No that's sexist.
Either way anyone can like anything but you can still make a reasonable guess based off of common sense on what demographic is most likely to vote this up.
There's nothing wrong with that. The only problem here is people like you who want to turn a reasonable estimate into a sexist issue.
Certainly more women would vote this up. Doesn't preclude men from doing it, but I imagine it would be far less. Just a educated guess based on demographics. Just like saying conservatives vote for trump or liberals vote for Biden. The generality is true even if the pedantic technicality is not.
Perhaps then we might get some more women hanging out with us. I personally find the monoculture in technical communities tedious, and the grief women get for asserting themselves in any way at all depressing. I just hope we can change all this before my daughter gets old enough to be excluded and taught her place is somewhere other than here.
Have you had any luck with this? In my experience, women will stop hanging out once married or in an established long term relationship.
But hangout for beers after work? Yeah that’s often mostly single men and women, or with spouses more understanding than mine ;-)