Could you please make your substantive points without snark and name-calling? Your comments in this thread are a noticeable step further into flamewar and break quite a few of the site guidelines. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

> try harder? have more tact? [...] have a little more awareness?

But isn't the cautious behavior mentioned already an example of this?

> in a way that can't be reasonably construed as sexist

"Reasonable" is the key word there. I think that one of the points in TFA is that the misconstruction doesn't need to reasonable to kill someone's career.

Also, in the public opinion court, it's no longer innocent until proven guilty, it's #believeallwomen. The pendulum has swung too far and it's time we center and de-radicalize the messages we carry around.

No, you must have missed the last 2 decades of "everything is sexist" narrative [1]. You can't expect for this to go on and have no counter-reaction. Men simply remove themselves from the conversations to not be labeled as sexists. Not because they are, but because there are so many women who interpret everything men do as sexist.

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian