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A friend of mine got on a programming forum once and pretended to be female. The result was far cringier than I would have predicted.

Similarly, I remember seeing some pretty awful comments on HN threads regarding female programmers.

Comment after comment shitting on their achievements, presumably from mediocre men who feel threatened by a successful woman in the field.

Not just here either. It's an industry-wide problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhG7SnDyUYQ

Go play any online game and have a gay sounding voice. All of the sudden that great white male privilege women like this think we have also disappears.

Yup, I agree women and minority groups are often targeted with online harassment. That also doesn't mean a white gay male doesn't benefit from inherent biases elsewhere in society.

Abuse for having a feminine-sounding voice is not the zinger against male privilege that you think it is.