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Re:To my daughter's high school programming teacher by sillysaurus2 on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @02:45PM (#6362261)
You sound fairly threatened and insecure; it sounds like you're worried that women might do better than you at technology, and then the one way you use to make yourself feel secure in yourself may fall away.

Why do you have to make your points while simultaneously being a complete douche about them? Personal attacks on HN, on purpose?

Re:To my daughter's high school programming teacher by lambda on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @02:58PM (#6362396)
Did you read the grandparent post? Bringing up complete strawmen, making vague censorship claims, making off-topic arguments about "well, men have it tough too in these other cases, so really men are the victims", and so on.

I tried to find some reason to explain why someone would do something like that, and that's the best I could come up with. I was also trying to point out how ridiculous an argument of "stop playing the victim card, look how much of a victim I am" is. Perhaps I went a little beyond what I should have when trying to point out how ridiculous it is, but I'm not really sure how to point that out much more gently.

Perhaps you have a better suggestion for how to deal with such ridiculous, hysterical, off-topic arguments? Perhaps one that doesn't involve calling someone a "complete douche" in the same breath as criticizing personal attacks?