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Comment by branon | Hacker News Reader

Agreed on your points but less sexism please.

The really important part is: when you decide to break an unjust law, don't talk about it on surveilled platforms, they're complicit and will hand your ass in. Don't bring your smartphone with you either.

Edit: yes I understand the laws themselves are sexist, but HN users didn't write the laws, and the "all you men" fingerpointing isn't really productive. Why the men here? You have much easier and more significant targets than male HN users.

I just want to say for the record that this comment briefly had a positive score before I got dogpiled.

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Parent is calling it out, not doing it themselves. The topic itself is deeply rooted in sexism. These kinds of transgressions against women often get drowned in debates about technicalities, which end up dominating the conversation and shifting attention away from the real problem - in this case bodily autonomy.

So I for one actually applaud parent for calling it out.

Sure, keeping sensitive conversations off of un-surveilled systems is easy for an informed person to say but most people have no clue how much surveillance actually happens. The battle to get people to chose to use the correct tools has been lost. The only course of action here to to fight and push for privacy rights.

not sure it's realistic to expect children to have the opsec of a tech worker

Sexism is unfortunately a key component of this discussion. Anti-abortion laws are focused on controlling a woman's body.

I do agree that it's more productive when the conversation is civil and polite - but sexism is firmly in the middle of this particular topic.

How is this about controlling a woman's body? It is the question of what life is and when is it okay to end it. I think abortions should be legal, however, whether you are a male or a female does not make your opinion more valid. Unless you think there is a difference between a baby inside of a woman and a baby outside of her.

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