We're here for a civil and substantive discussion, and this kind of trolling is not that. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thats not trolling, thats a humorous jab at the fact they were too eager to draw sweeping conclusions based on a, while promising if fine tuned, shotgun methodology to classify gender, but since you were so quick to shout out troll, there, i spellt it out for you.

Im glad atleast some folks find the post funny.

> ... were too eager to draw sweeping conclusions based on a, while promising if fine tuned, shotgun methodology to classify gender

I'm not sure exactly what this means, but you didn't say this—you said something deliberately inflammatory on an already controversial topic. We need commenters not to do that here because it sparks tedious flamewars by which our intellectual curiosity (the reason this site exists) is decidedly unsatisfied.

I merely referenced a meme to convey my opinion, which is repeated in the comment itself. We have to be careful not to turn hn into an ivory tower.

I do get you, but take it witha grain of sault. The real danger to our discourse is opinion Manipulation and echo chambers.

As in "She Apache helicoptered him in the face"?

Some people identify as "attack helicopter".

TIL, and it's even a first page search result.

> I’m beautiful. I’m having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me “Apache” and respect my right to kill from above

It's a stupid meme, mocking the trend among Tumblr's sexually confused teenagers to put down "autism", or "zodiac", or "Sherlock Holmes" as their gender and insisting that everyone refer to them using their super special unique pronouns they invented.

...No they don't.

If you manage to find two people who do, congratulations on being "technically" correct.

It's a meme, relax.

I think it's not as funny as the Navy Seal meme, though!

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/navy-seal-copypasta

This is a very tired meme. If anyone doesn't understand it, perhaps one can understand its usage by context, usually accompanied by ideas such as "gender isn't real, to prove it, I identity as a helicopter" (ironically/jokingly of course) and the classic "triggered".

Identifying as an Apache attack helicopter is ridiculous but identifying as a ferret is constructive. That's what furries are.

"along with his heart, she stole his last remaining shilling. But he should have known better than to surrender his heart to an apache attack helicopter" more like