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gorkonsine | 8 years ago
Suppose you're living in Saudi Arabia as a woman, and men there are treating you very poorly and in a sexist manner. Should you conclude that "men have a big problem with sexism"? No. The correct conclusion is that "men in Saudi Arabia have a big problem with sexism". Go to someplace like Norway and you're probably not going to see the same dynamic.
The same is likely true here: she's in France. I've never worked in the tech industry in France. However, I've worked in a bunch of different companies, in different industries, as a software engineer here in the US, and on both coasts too. I've never seen behavior like this. So IMO, the conclusion should be "the tech industry in France is misogynistic". The answer for her, therefore, IMO is to get the hell out of France.
dang|8 years ago
Regional and cultural differences are real, and have a much larger influence on Hacker News than is commonly realized. But bringing that up as you did in this thread, by pouring national flamebait into a gender flamewar, is definitely not using HN as intended.
Moreover we've warned you repeatedly and asked you to fix this and you haven't. Therefore I've banned you again. If you genuinely want to use HN as intended you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com, but would you please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with?
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868502 and marked it off-topic.