FearlessSon

I ask because I try not to be an insensitive prick, but if I'd been following Price, and had some thoughts on the problem, while I might have gone about it another way, I *could* have ended up in a similar position.

One thing I've noticed is that fans who are men generally interact with men devs in questions and women devs in declarative statements. This gives men devs the chance to engage as a professional and forces women to remind the fan that they are indeed the professional here.

I don't know how to fix this since the men doing this will inevitably insist that this is exactly how they interact with men devs, when it's clearly not.

And inevitably, when someone points this out, what happens is that they demand to see the receipts, in essence demanding someone else to work for their improvement.

That's a great observation. I don't pay enough attention to see that sort of thing (don't tend to engage in game communities beyond the odd steam thread re bugs). Is it reasonable to formulate as: "I reckon XYZ, what do you think?"? That's kinda both declarative and a question.

I would actually avoid that in the kind of case that I'm talking about here, because you're not asking the person their opinion *on the subject* but rather their opinion *on your opinion*, which is very different.

I risk embodying the bad thing by commenting at all but... as a dude on twitter it unfortunately took me a while to realize I need to interrogate if I’m commenting because I want to learn or understand something, or if I want someone else to recognize my own intelligence

So i tend to remind myself “it’s okay just to read, teacher doesn’t always have to know how clever you are”