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Please do not take HN threads into gender flamewar hell, or any flamewar hell.

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27142902.

Online recipes may or may not be written mostly by women, but the style is a consequence of copyright law, not biology or gender or even cultural norms around gender roles.

That's not why. It's because you only see the ones that do search engine optimization.

Not sure I've ever seen such blatant, overt misogyny on HN before.

Less than a week ago someone commented that they wanted their eldest son as sole inheritor; any daughters could marry into money.

OT1H that may not be as wildly generalising as this, but OTOH I found it showed such breathtaking callousness towards one's own flesh and blood that IMO it competes and perhaps even beats this.