[MockObject]

My experience here on HN, over the recent past few years, has only ever been consistent with this thread. Anything that could possibly be interpreted or misinterpreted as sexist gets voted down into oblivion. As do any defenders on abstract principles, or who take neutral stances.

This very comment of mine could be interpreted suspiciously as insufficiently antisexist, and be downvoted too.

Further, I use HN as a proxy for the general attitudes of the tech industry.

[wpietri]

My experience is different. I submit that maybe you are only noticing what you're noticing. People who aren't directly affected by systemic oppression rarely notice it as much as people who are, if only because for the latter group success and even survival depends on being very alert the fine details.