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Where the girls at? SXSW Edition

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15 pointsamanelis16 comments

We should be looking at ways to decrease autism rates.

If we can find ways for men inside the spectrum to hook up with women outside the spectrum, that may help in the long run.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html

There is an extensive literature on this topic, and a community devoted to educating people about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_artist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_Community

Speaking as someone on the autism spectrum: go to hell.

Ridiculously mild as mild Asperger's is compared to full blown autism, it has had a large mostly negative effect on my life. Even so, I wouldn't change take a pill to get rid of it. I am what I am, and there are coping strategies and niches aplenty.

Also, as a nerd hater, what are you doing on this site?

I'm surprised there is no corresponding "Where the boys at?" or does that defeat the purpose? It would be easy enough to create the same site for girls to find boys. that can also be a problem at times...

I'm surprised there is no corresponding "Where the boys at?"

This reflects the asymmetry of power distribution in the sexual market brought on by nature's unfair dispensation of vaginas.

Why are we assuming that a tech conference should be anyone's sexual playground, be they male or female? Also, what's up with all the boy-girl, girl-boy heteronormative assumptions?

At the end of the day, all this site did was show me 2 sexist coders (gasp!) who will likely never have enough respect for women to be able to work with any real women in a collaborative or professional setting.

Hmm...sounds like you have issues

Why are we assuming that a tech conference should be anyone's sexual playground

Are you asking me? It's the site's premise, not mine.

As for their heteronormative assumptions (if any), must the site be prepared to service all markets before they're allowed to enter any one market?

Edited as per gte910h's observation below.

I don't understand why you'd say they're assuming anything about the sexuality of the women that they're looking for. If anything the site is resoundingly silent on that, just literally mapping 4sq checkins to locations for people of the female gender who checked in.

What is sexist about wanting to find women? What is even vaguely sexist about that site? The tasteful pink toned argyle?

Who said anyone was going to have sex with these women? Perhaps women just want to know where to go to avoid all the men? I think your comment is showing a lot more about you than them.

SXSW is not a tech conference.

I voted you up for being strictly true, but thought someone should point out the strong tech component inherent in SXSW Interactive:

"SXSW Interactive has attracted a strong following among web creators and entrepreneurs. Its focus on emerging technology has earned the festival a reputation as a breeding ground for new ideas and creative technologies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sxsw

Go to any bar you moron...Ton's of sausage there if that's what you are looking for.

Calling me a moron and you get upvoted...I thought HN was better than this. Re-read my post and think about it and perhaps you will understand what my point was.

Why are people even assuming that the only possible use for this site is for men looking to pick up women? Most women tend to be very social creatures and I can well imagine this having a totally platonic, social use for women looking for other women to hang with so they don't feel so out of place in a (presumably) male dominated venue.

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