Comment by kohanz
12 years ago
If the tech field were evenly split 50/50, do you think women wouldn't comment on the attractiveness of guys?
Maybe, but how would that make a person's (of either gender) physical attractiveness (which is completely subjective, by the way) relevant to a discussion of an article about their technical accomplishments?
You're basically saying "We may, in a hypothetical future, have two wrongs", but remember that 2 * wrong != right.
People have been mentioning that sometimes there are discussions of male entrepreneurs or technical folk that comment on their appearance, but I like to think that HN is above that level of discourse.
The claim was that stating this woman is attractive is "gender biased". My point is that there is no gender bias as shown by women doing the same thing. Aside from the dubious claim of gender bias, "badness" has not been established.
My point is that there is no gender bias as shown by women doing the same thing
And this was shown definitively in your hypothetical tech world where the gender split is 50/50?
It's shown definitively by having known some women in my lifetime.
Physical attractiveness is not "completely subjective". There are very well established body proportions, symmetries, and other physical indicators of human attractiveness that are consistent across cultures and throughout time.