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Women already get enough special treatment. If you register for a computer forum with a female avatar, the amount of attention you get and rapidity with which your questions get answered is inordinate.

Coming up next - how to get more men interested in sewing.

Whenever I join a sewing-related IRC channel, I am inundated with sexual advances because of my obviously-male nickname. This needs to stop, or men will never have a fair shake at being sew-ers. (sewers?)

Oh wait, sorry. I was confusing a situation I made up in my mind with reality.

And not all of that attention desirable or even respectful.

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