This isn't a legal case. When articles are posted by men, people normally take their word for granted. But you're right, the analogy was probably a bit much.
>When articles are posted by men, people normally take their word for granted.
Do they? If anything, most articles on HN are met with a "why was this posted", "this is BS", "not worth our time", "You call that a project, I could code this in a weekend", "you don't know shit about monads" etc attitude.
I haven't seen any shortage of people NOT taking what male posters write for granted on HN.
Instead of, you know, taking their word for granted (something not even their own lawyer would do), and spouting silly unwaranted "rape" metaphors against anyone arguing?