Please don't post snarky dismissals to HN. The parent commenter may have been wrong, even completely wrong, but they didn't deserve this.

Unfortunately, you've posted similarly in other places recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36515859). That's not what we're trying for on this site. Would you be willing to review the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit more to heart? We'd be grateful.

Agreed. This issue you're talking about is the forefront of the political climate in the US today.

Do we speak the truth? Or do we speak in terms of empathy so as to not diminish constructive conversation?

It hurts my feelings when someone says 99% of all rape cases are from men. I may get angry when someone says that and that is, like you said, not leading to "constructive conversation."

But the issue here is that the 99% statistic is also the truth. So that's the big question with social justice and liberal politics today. How much do we bend reality for the sake of feelings or "constructive" discussion? When does reality get so bent that "constructive discussion" is no longer "constructive"? Let's not talk about rape and let's not talk about how males are the majority instigators because it hurts my feelings and is not constructive.

Additionally there's very selective application of "constructive discussion". For example you see a lot of rightly placed discussion about the male/female pay gap but no discussion on the fact that males make up 70% of homeless people. The 20% pay gap is by far the bigger issue here. Why?

I wrote a lot here because I care about the subject. For my money, I would argue that your one liner comment against the massive content I'm putting up here is the one that is "dismissive".

Odd how dismissive you are of someone noting an imbalance of privilege between genders....

Do you recall the underlying cause for it being ignored when/where it affected women negatively?

That's right, the privileged group was/is in denial as they did not want to lose the privilege, as equality feels like oppression to the privileged.

Now, apply the same century of arguments that have been well hashed out back onto the privilege women have. And don't deny that there are privileges in being a woman, fundamental to the misogynistic norms were explicit privileges well documented alongside the similarly well documented oppression.