taryneast comments on Community roles: teachers and auxiliaries - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taryneast 23 June 2011 06:33:17PM *  2 points [-]

Just nitpicking but

(I remember a thread a while back that I won't link where a woman was trying to give advice but it was clear she did not meet this standard and so failed to deconfuse anyone who wasn't already deconfused.)

was this person doing this because she was a woman... or because she had a common lack of a particular social skill (just like many non-women)?

When I read comments like this, I'm reminded of this xkcd comic