In a gender-skewed environment it’s best not to say anything that emphasizes someone’s gender. The stereotype threat alone would tend to reduce me to awkward mumbling. And your first reading is certainly the only one I would have come up with in realtime.
Submitter C’s story has lowered the already-low probability that I will ever attend a LW meetup.
In a gender-skewed environment it’s best not to say anything that emphasizes someone’s gender. The stereotype threat alone would tend to reduce me to awkward mumbling. And your first reading is certainly the only one I would have come up with in realtime.
Submitter C’s story has lowered the already-low probability that I will ever attend a LW meetup.