Hacker News with Generative AI: Gender

The Female Gaze (maryharrington.co.uk)
This week in silly internet discourse, the singer Olly Murs got fit, and posted Before and After shots. Then the psychologist William Costello posted the shots, and polled men and women on which looked better. More men chose the After shot, but vastly more women chose the Before. Cue pandemonium, including a lot of men saying the women who claim to prefer “Before” are lying.
Social Media, Gender, Psychology
28 points by barry-cotter 7 days ago | 36 comments
What we get when male fitness standards clash with female preferences (nataliaantonova.substack.com)
And this is what we get when male fitness standards clash with female preferences.
Gender, Fitness, Relationships, Preferences, Society
26 points by robarr 11 days ago | 21 comments
Woman who tricked her way into men-only Magic Circle allowed in (bbc.com)
A magician who tricked her way into the Magic Circle is finally being granted membership - 34 years after she was kicked out.
Magic, Gender, Controversy, UK
48 points by cmsefton 15 days ago | 24 comments
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin flop is bigger than Katy Perry (theverge.com)
Turns out “you go girl” feminism wasn’t enough to save this stunt trip.
Space Travel, Business, Celebrity Culture, Gender
7 points by abacussh 19 days ago | 0 comments
What "Silicon Valley" TV Show Knew About Tech-Bro Paternalism (theatlantic.com)
The show anticipated what can happen when masculine entitlement and artificial intelligence meet.
Television, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Gender
13 points by ryan_j_naughton 22 days ago | 8 comments
UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex (bbc.co.uk)
The UK Supreme Court rules that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.
Law, Gender, Biology, UK
20 points by dustedcodes 23 days ago | 24 comments
Study shows women can hear better than men (bath.ac.uk)
Scientists find that sex is the leading factor explaining differences in hearing sensitivity, with women having significantly more sensitive hearing than men.
Science, Gender, Hearing
11 points by jnord 33 days ago | 6 comments
Do women talk more than men? (bps.org.uk)
New research challenges an old assumption with modern technology…
Gender, Communication, Psychology, Research, Technology
25 points by domofutu 34 days ago | 27 comments
The Vanishing Male Writer (marginalrevolution.com)
It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list.
Literature, Gender, Social Issues, Publishing, Demographics
7 points by delichon 47 days ago | 0 comments
Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website (bbc.com)
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members.
History, Military, Race, Gender, Censorship
77 points by duxup 53 days ago | 22 comments
Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019) (scientificamerican.com)
New approaches are shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality, and the results are so strong and pervasive that they can no longer be ignored
Psychology, Gender, Science, Personality
47 points by Tomte 54 days ago | 19 comments
Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of predictors of differential treatment (psycnet.apa.org)
Psychology, Gender, Meta-Analysis, Parenting
30 points by c-oreills 74 days ago | 17 comments
The Hidden Costs of Men's Social Isolation (scientificamerican.com)
Men are struggling—at least, that’s what many headlines suggest. Compared with women, they report having fewer and less supportive friendships. Men lag behind dramatically in achievements such as higher education attainment. Suicide rates, too, reveal a grim gender disparity: women attempt suicide more often, but men are far more likely to die by it.
Mental Health, Gender, Social Issues
35 points by timbilt 84 days ago | 5 comments
It's not 'emotional labour', it's kin work (thefuturefeeling.substack.com)
I’ve just come back from a seasonal gathering where it was obvious – as it is obvious every year – that the women in the heterosexual couples had done a far larger amount of work than their partners.
Gender, Relationships, Sociology, Family
61 points by bobbiechen 95 days ago | 71 comments
Zuckerberg thinks workplaces need to 'man up' − why that's bad for all employees (theconversation.com)
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a Jan. 10, 2025, episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” he lamented that corporate culture had become too “feminine,” suppressing its “masculine energy” and abandoning supposedly valuable traits such as aggression.
Workplace Culture, Gender, Business Leadership, Social Commentary
6 points by rntn 105 days ago | 1 comments
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination (2017) (scientificamerican.com)
Humans are socially conditioned to view sex and gender as binary attributes. From the moment we are born—or even before—we are definitively labeled “boy” or “girl.” Yet science points to a much more ambiguous reality.
Science, Biology, Gender, Sex Determination
11 points by Kye 106 days ago | 0 comments
The reason for the rise in male childlessness (bbc.com)
When the US vice-presidential candidate JD Vance made a comment about “childless cat ladies”, he evoked an image of educated, urbanite, career-minded women.
Demographics, Social Trends, Gender, Family, Politics
15 points by Qem 107 days ago | 9 comments
Trump's Executive Order Against Trans Technically Makes Every American Female (iflscience.com)
Moments after the presidential inauguration, US President Donald Trump signed several anti-scientific executive orders (EOs), such as taking the United States out of the Paris Agreement to curtail human-made climate change and withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization. He also signed an EO targeting trans and non-binary people which had the unintended consequence of making every single American female. If you will legislate with scientific words, you should know the science.
Politics, Science, Gender, United States
15 points by Tomte 107 days ago | 12 comments
Do You Really Think We'll Have Genders in the Future? (erikmcclure.com)
Something that is very common is for people pushing the boundaries of technology (or pretending to, anyway) to hold weirdly conservative social views.
Future, Gender, Technology, Social Views
13 points by blackhole 110 days ago | 4 comments
The Typical Man Disgusts the Typical Woman (betonit.ai)
Ever seen this famous OkCupid graph? The quick summary is just: “Men rate women more highly than women rate men.”
Dating, Gender, Social Science, Psychology, Relationships
36 points by jger15 116 days ago | 44 comments
The history of sex toys and what they tell us about ancient women (rte.ie)
During a recent trip to London, I had the honour of finally visiting the Vagina Museum. This delightful museum is an inclusive space that celebrates vulvas, vaginas, and advocates for self-acceptance and equality.
History, Sex, Gender, Culture, Museums
22 points by austinallegro 117 days ago | 17 comments
Zuckerberg Says Most Companies Need More 'Masculine Energy' (bloomberg.com)
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy,” adding that it’s good if a culture “celebrates the aggression a bit more.”
Business, Culture, Gender, Leadership
10 points by healsdata 118 days ago | 1 comments
Male and female brains are wired differently (earth.com)
Have you ever found yourself in a heated discussion with someone of the opposite sex and thought – “it’s like we’re wired differently”? Well, a recent study from the University of Cambridge suggests that male and female brains are indeed wired differently from the time of birth.
Neuroscience, Gender, Biology
32 points by isaacfrond 119 days ago | 23 comments
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (celestemdavis.substack.com)
“Nearly 60 percent of all college students today are women. That’s an all-time high… U.S. colleges and universities have lost about 1.5 million students in the past several years. Men accounted for 71 percent of that loss.”
Education, Demographics, Gender, Higher Education
18 points by tempestn 127 days ago | 24 comments
Women are closing in on men when it comes to ultra-endurance events (medicalxpress.com)
Men are dominant at most athletic events but ultra-endurance sports (exercising for six hours or more) represent a unique domain where the performance gap between men and women is narrowing significantly.
Sports, Gender, Performance, Endurance
4 points by pseudolus 129 days ago | 0 comments
Study: RTO mandates are making it harder for companies to hire (fastcompany.com)
A new study found that RTO mandates across S&P 500 companies significantly increased turnover among tech and finance workers—especially for women.
Workforce, Employment, Remote Work, Technology, Gender
27 points by znpy 154 days ago | 16 comments
Misperception of the facial appearance that the opposite-sex desires (plos.org)
Thin and muscular have been characterised as body shape ideals for women and men, respectively, yet each sex misperceives what the other sex desires; women exaggerate the thinness that men like and men exaggerate the muscularity that women like.
Psychology, Body Image, Gender, Misperception, Relationships
84 points by cainxinth 156 days ago | 65 comments
U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group (pewresearch.org)
Women between the ages of 25 and 34 continue to be more likely than men in the same age group to have a bachelor’s degree. The gender gap in bachelor’s degree completion appears in every major racial or ethnic group, though the size of the gap varies widely.
Education, Gender, Demographics
105 points by samspenc 168 days ago | 263 comments
Magic Circle tries to track down first female member – who posed as a man (theguardian.com)
The council meeting of the Magic Circle on 9 October 1991 was a historic occasion, marking the moment when the first cohort of women, including Debbie McGee and Fay Presto, were admitted to its previously male-only ranks of magicians.
Magic, Gender, History, United Kingdom, Entertainment
33 points by Emigre_ 179 days ago | 47 comments
Age-Normalized Testosterone Peaks at Series B for Male Startup Founders (twitter.com)
Startup Funding, Startups, Gender, Biology, Venture Capital
7 points by Mdubrov 181 days ago | 0 comments