They quite obviously aren’t anywhere remotely close to half the potential audience, because to be part of the potential audience, you need certain background knowledge, interests, personality features/bugs, and other things that apparently are very lopsidedly distributed between genders. I assume you’re not actually claiming that 90% of one gender was chased away because once in a while someone makes an off-hand comment that, if implicit disclaimers are removed, seems to assume a heterosexual male audience.
I assume you’re not actually claiming that 90% of one gender was chased away because once in a while someone makes an off-hand comment that, if implicit disclaimers are removed, seems to assume a heterosexual male audience.
Of course not.
Honestly, I don’t think we’re disagreeing on any significant point of fact or policy, so if it’s all the same, I think I’ll leave this here.
They quite obviously aren’t anywhere remotely close to half the potential audience, because to be part of the potential audience, you need certain background knowledge, interests, personality features/bugs, and other things that apparently are very lopsidedly distributed between genders. I assume you’re not actually claiming that 90% of one gender was chased away because once in a while someone makes an off-hand comment that, if implicit disclaimers are removed, seems to assume a heterosexual male audience.
Of course not.
Honestly, I don’t think we’re disagreeing on any significant point of fact or policy, so if it’s all the same, I think I’ll leave this here.
OK. Sorry if I sounded testy, random bad mood or something.
on both our parts, I think—sorry for trying to defend more than I needed to.