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Re:The Man Trap by dang on Sunday May 14, 2017 @07:05PM (#14337995)
Please don't post like this. The unsubstantive+ragey combo forms an inflection point at which threads go from bad to much worse.

When a discussion turns into "yay label" vs. "boo label", there's no information left in it, and flamewars are the only thing left to do.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337198 and marked it off-topic.

Re:The Man Trap by monksy on Sunday May 14, 2017 @07:22PM (#14338067)
I disagree with your view of what I posted. (it was not done with a unsubstantive+ragey stance) What I posted was a disagreement with the exaggeration of the alternative point of view they had. (Any article that doesn't agree with the popular ultra liberal women's positive view is "salted by mens rights [insert derogative terms etc]")

Being anti-feminist is not a bad thing. It is a conversation that could be had (is it good, is it bad, etc), the topic of the original poster leads to a conversatoin about this.

My concern with Hacker News is that it claims to be technology focused, and founder focus. However articles dealing with gender issues, like this, get promoted and kept up.

I completely respect and understand your stance that those topics tend to go badly.