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Comment by thebiglebrewski | Hacker News Reader

You just don't get it. Who cares if its true! Try, for a moment, to put yourself in the shoes of someone of the opposite gender (I assume you're a man) and imagine how that would make you feel about joining a company board after all that's happened with Uber so far on the sexism and gender discrimination front. If you did, you'd never have written this comment...but you seem to have an empathy issue.

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I really really doubt anyone would care if someone made a similar joke about men. At best someone would note that it's hypocritical like I am, but not actually be personally offended. Some women make comments like that all the time and no one cares.

Hi there! You also "don't get it"! That's NOT THE POINT. Who cares if anyone would care if women said that about men.

It wouldn't matter if women made that joke about men because we have a ton of privilege just by nature of our gender. Look at the context here! This is a company that has oppressed an entire gender and it just continues. And then this shit. So why does it even matter if women said that about men? And would they? And are they doing stuff like that systemically, like men do, systematically since the dawn of civilization putting women in a lesser role?

- A man

You are possibly right to be frustrated about gender problems, but your suggestion — that in the fight for gender equality it's ok to construct a double standard for men and women — is mistaken. If you want to fix gender inequality, fix specific unjust advantages and disadvantages. The idea that because men have blanket "privilege" women should be compensated with additional privileges leads to more inequality, not less.

And my comment in reply to this nonsense got flagged and downvoted, 3 days later, on an already flagged and buried subthread. Wtf. You guys are just proving my point.

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