Her gender does seem to cause divisiveness, but it affects both sides of the debate. _Anyone_ who criticises anything in articles coming from these domains is downvoted and _all_ arguments are hand waved away on the grounds that they're made because OP is a woman.

What this means is that no measured discussion can be had either way and the comments are almost always a disaster (at least here, on HN).

It's weird, I don't know what's the root cause of all this vitriol (other women authors don't get this treatment on HN, it's just this particular domain).