A. Thank you for quoting the exact point where they say that. I'm very seriously handicapped, including serious eyesight issues. I looked and couldn't find it.

B. I hang out on HN for my own purposes. It's part of how I occupy myself.*

I long ago gave up on being taken seriously here or given any fucking respect. I'm a woman. I'm dirt poor and handicapped and HN is a networking fail for me and I get nothing but shit from people for trying to sort my problems and figure out how to make my life work while other people have no problem making money here, making friends, promoting their work, etc.

I've stopped posting my work here because no one but me ever posts my writing, that piece that made the front page made not one thin dime while everyone tells me "Quit your bitching and get a real job."

I applied for a real job. They took my incomplete application with a decade-old resume seriously because I was so much more qualified than other candidates, then hired someone else who proceeded to steal my ideas and go out of his way to make sure I couldn't earn a living locally though he is literally being paid to help locals like me succeed financially.

I'm a writer by trade. It's something I can do in spite of my handicap.

People on the internet do not want to pay writers for their work. They don't want to tip, support your Patreon, hire you as a freelancer etc. HN has spent years telling me that writing simply doesn't pay and I'm crazy and stupid to think it should while simultaneously bitching about how journalism is going to hell. God forbid you should point out that there might be a connection between their desire for slave labor from writers and the lack of quality writing out there.

C. I really don't feel it is appropriate for you to tell me I can't simply disagree with them in a comment on an online forum and must instead come up with an alternate theory and do their job for them and write them and spoon feed them a better answer or shut up.

Their hypothesis does not hold water. No one is paying me to fix their problems for them and I urgently need more income.

I only continue to write in spite of getting no money and nothing but contempt from people because I remain seriously handicapped and it's part of how I occupy myself though at this point I just wish I had not been born into this shit world where it's apparently not allowed for me to make my life work for some damn reason.

Please kindly walk the fuck away from this stupid, pointless argument where if I respond to the points laid out, I'm somehow wrong and if I don't that will just be taken as evidence I don't have a point.

I have a point. It doesn't matter. No one wants to hear it.

I don't have the right bits between my legs and I don't have the right degrees and blah blah blah, which means being right about something is one of the most offensive things I can possibly do. It might make some well-paid man look like a fool and we can't have that.

Please chalk this up to the lunatic rantings of a pathetic loser with no life and just stop. Because it's really ugly stuff to dismiss me and everything that's happened to me and then act like I should just politely let that dismissal stand unchallenged.

* https://writepay.blogspot.com/2020/07/my-occupation.html

Wrong link. Oops. Updated.