This post is so militantly, toxically out-of-place on HN I have to wonder whether it's a deliberate trap set by the moderators. If so: be more subtle next time, please.
It's ranking fairly highly on r/truereddit, and I see a lot of crossover between TR and HN, so I'm willing to believe that somebody cross-posted it thinking it would be of interest. That's not to say it isn't out of place, but it also doesn't mean it's a honeypot.
I'd like the story better if it had been a honeypot, so I didn't mean to cast aspersions on the poster. Sorry if I made it sound otherwise. Since you agree that it's out of place, I hope you flagged it too.
I don't think it is. When I started reading it, I was thinking, oh, man, this is just someone else who can't take a joke, then I started thinking what if I was a woman whose views weren't being taken seriously simply because I was a woman?
How awful would that be.
But, then again, this happens so often in the IT world.
From those same guidelines:
"If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Being new here means (in my case) that I re-read the guidelines each time I think they might impinge on a decision to post, because I'm aware that I haven't yet absorbed them into my general thinking patterns.
Also, to which guideline were you directing gregbair's attention? I fail to grok your meaning.
Flagged.