Sorry but what in your story shows that it's sexism? It could easily have happened to a guy or been done by a lady security expert and is more a symptom of a superiority complex.
... then you post about it to HN and have a handful of comments insist that it's not happening at all.
>... then you post about it to HN and have a handful of comments insist that it's not happening at all.
The problem is that without this additional context you just posted it's hard for someone to make the connection because we see all of this happen regularly around us even without the gender or a race factor thrown in.
b: anecdotes dont' cut it
a: you are derailing the topic, here see this link
In this case, no one is allowed to question rachel's account because the user name rachelbythebay contains a name commonly associated with being female. It's likely if the username was "robertonthebus" we would be able to question robert's assertions.
But this being Hacker News, I am hopeful we can get past your attempt to speech police and get back to a constructive dialogue.
Also, your first paragraph is ambiguous, I'm guessing it means: drd is a guide to 'derailing' tactics used on forums, that is itself used to...
Yes, thank you.
Well this is part of the problem. You weren't clear. You weren't clear in a way that other people asked you politely to clear up.
You turn around and accuse them of their own sexist behaviors.
When I read your initial description, it sounded like dozens of incidents that I have been party to when groups create documents.