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Comment by justwannasing | Hacker News Reader

What a sexist statement. Women are different from men. Pffft!

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

An initial comment like this is particularly bad because it takes the whole discussion down a predictable generic tangent, instead of discussing the actual story.

I didn't introduce the topic. I only made the typical HN/Reddit-like comment so prevalent on anything like this if it were to show men/non-whites/Americans in a positive light.

The topic was immune systems.

> I only made the typical HN/Reddit-like comment so prevalent on anything like this

Please don't make such comments here.

There is a difference between stating a scientific finding and making a prejudice remark. Especially when the former isn't thinly veiled support for the latter.

I guess I'm being oversensitive because I'm reading the OP as implying that the term "sexist" is thrown around inappropriately.

Was it overly optimistic of me to assume it was a joke?

Poe's Law?

So it's not sexist if men and women are different, as long as it's "immune system functions" and not "statistical behaviors at work"?

How did you arrive at the distinction?

Anything that doesn't result in equal outcome of greateness is sexism. For example, asking 50% reservation for women in soldiers going to war is sexism because war is not greatness, but preferring women 200% over men in STEM[1] is not sexism because doing science is greatness and women are still < 50% of sceintists.

Just joking of course. Women having different immune system functions means more funding for women specific medicine - hence it is good. Study of behavior at workplace based on gender doesn't generate funding because there aren't many women doing startups anyway.

You keep watching, in a decade or two when there will be enough women in startups that they will actually have any economical significance there WILL be studies conducted. And depending on how that turns out - if 'women better than men', it will be an 'evil corrected' story, and if 'women worse than men', state will intervene via laws to protect women's rights. It has already started actually.

This is why I took the risk of losing mod points and posted 'another decade' comment above.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ICcdpH2WA

Wrong time man. Gotta wait for another decade.

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