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Dawkins vs. Rose on whether there’s a sex binary

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8 pointsoldschoolib6 comments

Suzanne Moore does an even better critique of Jacqueline Rose's arguments, in this article:

https://unherd.com/2023/07/why-did-jacqueline-rose-erase-wom...

Is this really appropriate for a tech forum? Not getting into a flame war about who is right here, can Hacker News actually bring anything useful to this discussion that hasn't been discussed ad-nauseam elsewhere on the internet?

nerdbro contingent notwithstanding, tech actually ends up being a bit of a refuge for queer professionals - the ongoing joke about how much network infrastructure is maintained by trans furries is funny because of how accurate it is. When you can do your job remotely, and when most of your job is just crafting, not presenting yourself to the public - you can get away with a lot less social conformity. If not you, then perhaps your boss, or your coworker, or your intern.

… that said, I’ve gotta admit, this particular post doesn’t seem to feature much of interest.

I wanted to say that but also as the first commenter I didn't want to start the flame war I was asking us to avoid. There's definitely a lot more non-conforming people of all types in tech (I came to work with nail polish on today, by way of example) and it pains me to watch what should otherwise be culture-war free spaces get overtaken by it. HN isn't some bastion of "wokeness" (god I hate that term but it's a useful shortcut) but so much of the other commentary / social media spaces I frequent are caught up in the current right-wing culture warring and I'd just like some place where I can read about techy stuff without having to wade through more shitty comments about me and my friends.

> I wanted to say that but also as the first commenter I didn't want to start the flame war I was asking us to avoid.

The way to do that is to simply flag the submissions you think don't belong here, and that's it.

From HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Ah nice, thanks for that. I'll keep that in mind for next time.

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