I believe there are still genders, so sometimes people genderize and sometimes not, it's based on context. In this context, this article is mostly about Richard Viguerie, so I'm gonna guess they were also thinking about playing on "Mad Men" as well.

That would make sense, that and it is talking about the past more than the present in many ways.

It varies by location. Most people I meet are just professionals that don't care, most people who do care are just entertained because professionals have better things to do than argue with activists.

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Good too know. FWIW I'm not activist, just about fairness and balance myself - what good for the goose is good for the gander as they say.

>FWIW I'm not activist, just about fairness and balance myself

Lobbing identity politics grenades when it has nothing to do with the subject at hand is activism. It's the softer kind, but it's still activism.

Please don't do this. It does more to entrench people's positions than anything else.

Sorry, it's not something I'd of query had it not stood out how the title was framed in a negative manner with the spacing and quotes.

Duly noted.