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Comment by justinator | Hacker News Reader

Any way to change the title a bit? Calling something, "girly" communicates the idea that anything effeminate is somehow weaker than its more masculine counterpart, and therefore less desirable. Which is sexist.

Is HN better than that?

Edit: given how many downvotes I've received, I guess the answer is no: Hacker News is not better than this.

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Hi, I downvoted you because you appear to lack reading comprehension ("girly" is not HN's word or even the article author's word: HN is quoting the author and the author is quoting his critics). Either that, or you have some extreme political ideology under which it's not even permissible to quote people critically when they express inappropriate sentiments — if that's your position, you did a poor job of explaining it.

Then I flagged you because, in addition, your wording was pugnacious ("Is HN better than that?").

I appreciate the good part of your point, but this sort of thing breaks the HN guidelines:

> you appear to lack reading comprehension

> or you have some extreme political ideology

Would you please re-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them when commenting here? They apply regardless of how wrong the other person is. Actually they apply most of all when the other person is wrong, because otherwise you give people a good reason to dismiss your correction.

waqf is right about the quote, and I don't think what you said about HN is at all fair. Nevertheless I took 'girly drink' out above because such phrases tend to act like sandpaper on the skin regardless of how many quotes they come wrapped in. Multiply that by the number of people who see HN's front page and the business about the quote gets lost. Maybe it shouldn't, but that's the effect and there's no gain in ignoring it.

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