This satirical article kinda nails it:

http://reductress.com/post/man-in-male-dominated-field-says-...

I have to stick up a bit for the community as a whole. There have been at least three relatively (emphasis on relatively—in absolute terms still pretty bad) substantive discussions of sexual harassment on HN recently. This one is certainly much worse, but the trend can't be monotonic; the community is far too large and divided for that. If we judge by all the data points, the trend seems positive. But it's slow.

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

What's wrong with this place? What's wrong with this world is the question you should be asking, it's not a mistake that sexual harassment has flourished among a population that (clearly -- read the posts in this thread) also discounts it's very legitimacy.

Y'alls parents didn't raise you right.

The topic of women and minorities in tech really provokes HN to display its neckbeard plumage. Really, I don't know why I click on the comments of these articles.

People in tech-- nerdy or socially insecure men in particular-- often tie their self worth to their jobs or their skills.

A mere whiff that the reason that they have their position isn't because they're innately better than everyone else threatens that sense of self worth, and a lot of them handle it by getting angrily defensive.

Fatigue of the subject possibly.

An article about someone found to have produced a false accusation is unlikely to provoke enlightening debate.