"teenage" girls aren't the height of professionalism, I think was the thrust there. The use of the word "like" frequently denotes this. Nothing wrong with girls, period. But teenagers aren't looked up to as the paragons of professionalism.
Are teenage boys the height of professionalism? I think the gender comment is unnecessary, irrelevant, and harmful.
Oh, come off it already. It is clear what he meant, you are just trying really hard to be offended by something.
This was so unprofessional, it's like it was written by a black teenager!
...is that better?
Or is it more obvious now that the original comment was an insult to girls?
No, it was unnecessarily sexist and demeaning.
Yes it was clear the poster was being derogatory to girls. It's also clear you are trying to normalize and justify such behavior. Both are unnecessary.
There are negative traits about both teenage boys and teenage girls. The writing style more closely matches teenage girls in this instance, so that's why the connection was made. Sexism exists in tech but this is not it.
Clearly the poster was talking about the excessive use of `like` which he deems as the typical vocabulary of a teenage girl which is what you're attempting to be upset by. It had nothing to do with teenage boys being significantly more professional than teenage girls, or anything of the sort.
You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
Not to mention the wacky animated GIFs every other paragraph.
Well, those are all content marketing techniques, GIFs and casual language speak to the author's target demographic I suppose.
This is a fair comment and I don't think it ought to be downvoted. It should have been "teenager" - that's not a criticism of the original commenter - but I think something worth correcting.
While we're encouraging edits within HN's 1 hour edit window, in your shoes I'd have de-escalated the last word: