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The incident also illustrates a double bind when it comes to reporting sexism: if the reporter identifies herself as a woman, as Lena did, she can be accused of "asking to be treated differently." By default, someone presumed to be male would have been assumed to be looking out for the needs of the ''community'' in filing an identical bug report, whereas someone who identified herself as female was, merely because of her gender, considered to be looking after only her own needs. On the other hand, the reporter does what Harper suggested (in a comment that itself began with "As a female committer") and "leaves her gender out of it", she can be silenced with the [[Not a woman]] tactic.

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