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Comment by jerrya | Hacker News Reader

Whoa.

There is a huge gap between my disagreeing with clearly sexist based policies and saying that sexism, even so called benevolent sexism is a bad thing, and your claiming I am misogynistic or that my point of view is insane, or even idiotic.

That I do not agree with any form of sexism makes me egalitarian, not misogynistic. You are way out of line, bub.

And while I do not know Danilo Campos or whether he/she is eager to grasp the role you assign, the notion there is some person whose role it is to police the discussions at Hacker News to whack people with sticks that disagree with him is well, downright creepy.

Not a way to run a discussion forum if one is interested in dialogue, and conversation.

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That's a very uncharitable reading of my comment. I made no statement about you aside from the lack of nuance in your argument (the whole zomg part). I think you took issue with this:

he usually whacks people with a sanity stick when it comes to misogyny in tech

which was simply a comment on how Danilo provides people with a reality check re: the prevalence of misogyny in tech.

I raised that point b/c people on Twitter were characterizing your remarks as representative of HN as a whole, when in practice I've found that we debate this issue carefully (again, as opposed to your blanket statement calling them sexist).

I went out of my way to avoid characterizing you as misogynistic. I apologize if my comment may have implied you're misogynistic (I don't know you, though, so why would I throw that claim around?) and would appreciate it if you instead responded to my actual claims (HSchool's scholarship is an attempt to combat the presence of sexism in our industry).

I suggest you address twitter issues on twitter. HN issues on HN. I don't see how replying on HN to me with a shoutout to twitter, helps any conversation on twitter.

And any conversation on twitter that represents HN as monolithic in thought, or unable to debate issues thoroughly is prima facie not-serious, (that is, until you tell me of some person you believe whose self-assigned role it is to go around enforcing thought at HN with a whack and a stick.)

I can't begin to tell you how creeped out I am that there are twitter stalkers commenting about this article or my response on twitter, drawing conclusions, saying who knows what based on zero knowledge and yet afraid to discuss the issues here.

Doesn't say much for Internet Discourse 2013.

"Not a way to run a discussion forum if one is interested in dialogue, and conversation."

and yet you bragged about flagging the submission...

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