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The audience of mostly-male, mostly-white, mostly-young, mostly-affluent, readers? Those with a plausible interest in historical details, for example how men almost a hundred years ago felt the exact same about women as they do now?

Also, it’s really a neat little story. Believe it or not, there are people here appreciating that too.

I'll take objection with mostly-young.

HN poll seemed to average around ~37, and that was a year ago. Given the median US age is 38, and median global age being ~30, I don't find categorizing HN as "mostly-young" accurate at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33480849

I'll be 76 in June

Congrats! Alas but just one anecdote in the sea of HN demographics.

I doubt it’s mostly white. The other filters might hold. But that I suspect might not.

GP did say white. I'll acknowledge it.

Tbh, I don't think "white" matters in this context. Young, male, (msotly) single, affluent, all have a similar outlook, especially if their pride and drive are intact.

Are you sure? Strolling around on fifth ave, shopping, and day drinking -- in short, procrastination by privilege -- sure sounds like an experience young, affluent, white Americans can relate with in particular.

> Young, male, (msotly) single, affluent, all have a similar outlook, especially if their pride and drive are intact.

I'd like to see you say that straight in the face of a young African-American man.

>The audience of mostly-male, mostly-white, mostly-young, mostly-affluent, readers?

Why whiteness is even relevant here?

The characters in the story are white, set in a pretty white society by a white author. It's a piece of white culture.

Nothing wrong with that, it just is.

It showcases a human experience? I don’t even agree with the other comment; there’s no reason this has to only appeal to white young rich men. Jealousy, insecurity, marital strife and attempts to paper over it are universal.

HN Sundays is a bit of a subculture within a subculture.

Especially on a Monday.

A holiday Monday, at least in the States.

I didn't even realize it was a Monday because of the holiday :P

US holiday (MLK Jr. Day).

Why not? Lots to be intellectually curious about. I'd be thrilled to see HN expand its intellectual horizons to literature.

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