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Weird. My first thought reading that even men! parenthetical was not that the author actually had a dim view of men.

If the parenthetical read "even women!" that would not be perceived as a minute poke at the female ego. Commentary would be at least an order of magnitude louder/more inflamed. You know damn well there would never be an "even women!" parenthetical by any author who cared about their career.

So it's weird for you to take what little commentary there is and shoehorn it into 'minute poke at the male ego'. Honestly I paid way more attention to it due to your comment, otherwise it would have just slid out of my awareness.

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Exactly this. How many people who are commenting are missing the point is hilarious.

Fwiw, my take is that outrage culture has gone too far... maybe its time to play their game.

>If the parenthetical read "even women!" that would not be perceived as a minute poke at the female ego. Commentary would be at least an order of magnitude louder/more inflamed.

Come now. Far worse things are said about women all over the web all the time.

And the point is the double standard. When women are outraged about toxic male behavior that leads to sexual harassment, violence, rape culture, keeps them out of employment in certain fields, etc, they're derided and dismissed as radical feminist man-hating social justice warriors engaged in mob outrage and misogynistic witch-hunts.

When men are outraged about literally anything, no matter how trivial (and this is very trivial), it's always perfectly justified.

> Come now. Far worse things are said about women all over the web all the time.

You can't possibly be ignorant enough to think that the existence of blatant (albeit throwaway) misogyny like the example here would be tolerated on HN? There'd be rightful complaints right at the top of the thread and dissenters would be downvoted to hell. To be clear, I'd very much be joining in on the downvoting: a throwaway joke about women being bad at something isn't within the bounds of what I consider acceptable in eg learning materials.

Believe it or not, there are people out there who were raised with a shred of moral consistency, and who have actual moral beliefs (like being against sexism) instead of whatever grotesque facsimile of a conscience you've convinced yourself is your moral center. "But there are people out there who do worse!" isn't an ethical argument, it's a toddler's excuse for acting out.

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