<story><title>Why I don&apos;t use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website</title><url>https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-i-dont-use-my-real-photo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakobegger</author><text>Amazing. The author spends a lot of time to tell us a very convincing story how sexism affects people in our industry, and the Hacker News thread is full of people rationalizing it.&lt;p&gt;- it&amp;#x27;s only because people think you&amp;#x27;re a bot&lt;p&gt;- it&amp;#x27;s because of your target audience&lt;p&gt;- it&amp;#x27;s because chat widgets are annoying&lt;p&gt;- you don&amp;#x27;t really have enough data to make any conclusions&lt;p&gt;How much will it take to convince the average HN reader that sexism actually is everywhere?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sctb</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;How much will it take to convince the average HN reader that sexism actually is everywhere?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many comments in this thread are lamenting these dismissals, which happen to be languishing at the bottom while this comment as well as the original article are massively upvoted. If I were to draw a conclusion about how the community generally feels about this issue, it would be opposite to yours.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why I don&apos;t use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website</title><url>https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-i-dont-use-my-real-photo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakobegger</author><text>Amazing. The author spends a lot of time to tell us a very convincing story how sexism affects people in our industry, and the Hacker News thread is full of people rationalizing it.&lt;p&gt;- it&amp;#x27;s only because people think you&amp;#x27;re a bot&lt;p&gt;- it&amp;#x27;s because of your target audience&lt;p&gt;- it&amp;#x27;s because chat widgets are annoying&lt;p&gt;- you don&amp;#x27;t really have enough data to make any conclusions&lt;p&gt;How much will it take to convince the average HN reader that sexism actually is everywhere?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fsloth</author><text>&amp;quot;How much will it take to convince the average HN reader that sexism actually is everywhere?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I presume those that think this way either have no female friends or have not asked them about it.&lt;p&gt;Men generally don&amp;#x27;t get catcalls or get their body fondled by strangers.</text></comment>