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Apparently the definition of sexism is now just not telling women what they want to hear. The vast majority of the criticism of pg's answer that I saw wasn't even claiming that he was wrong, but just calling him sexist because his answer wasn't masturbatory enough. C.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840377

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Pretty much. The definition of sexism also involves endless discussions about the almost last job category still ruled by the evil patriarchy - computer engineers - among the 15 projected to grow the most over the next decade [1]. For the record, the only other male dominated job category is janitors but I somehow doubt it faces similar outrage by the gender equality knight templars.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-...

For what it's worth, that statistic isn't actually true. While computer engineers may be expected to be one of the fastest growing employment categories by percent, the number of computer engineers are relatively tiny. So in fact way more jobs are going to be added in careers that are projected to have only a couple percent growth. By absolute numbers, computer engineers aren't even in the top 30 careers for anticipated growth. C.f. page 18: http://centerforcollegeaffordability.org/uploads/Underemploy...

> For the record, the only other male dominated job category is janitors but I somehow doubt it faces similar outrage by the gender equality knight templars.

I'm really curious where you got this information because it doesn't agree with anything else I've read. Among other things, about 75% of US doctors are male[1].

[1] http://www.hschange.com/CONTENT/1078/

That's of the 15 job categories expected to grow the most over the next decade. Doctors likely aren't one of those high-growth categories.

People lose their jobs for this kind of shit, it is ridiculous.

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