That and a healthy dose of troll.

It's an entertainingly daft read if nothing else.

The blue pill runs deep in HN. It's just the personality of nerds to be white knights. There are always a minority that have taken http://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill

Or ya know. The rest of the people here have very different lives and more often surround themselves with intelligent people of both sexes. You've made it very clear that your selection process for females is incredibly unlikely to attract someone with whom you'd have a deep, meaningful conversation. It would be exactly the same if you were gay and chasing after their male analogues.

Oh... my... god, you actually mention the red pill thing here? Red Pill is the absolute direct opposite of Hacker News, of intellectual maturity, of intellectual curiosity. Red Pill is like being a slave owner. iretired needs to go back to Reddit. I'd tell him to go back to 4chan, but even 4channers don't buy into that Red Pill bullshit.