diN0bot

Today I read a handful of comments that included a sentence starting with “women” as if women are a monolith.

For example, there was an argument about whether “women like bodybuilders” or “women don’t like bodybuilders” — there are billions of women in the world, with dozens of intersections across race, class, culture, and sexuality to name a few. The argument doesn’t make sense.

“women” are people who read our comments. I roll my eyes when I see women treated as objects or stereotypes or monoliths on hacker news. Today I thought I’d do something more.

Thanks for reading this post. Now we all know that referring to women as a monolith, as if speaking only to other straight men (who we falsely assume are ok speaking about women this way), is as rude as referring to “the gays” or “the [not-whites]” and as eye-sore as writing “you’re [possessed object]”.

Anyone else feeling this way? Thanks in advance for the thoughtful discussion.