[jfengel]

It did in this case. Nobody would have batted an eyelash if they had gone with, say, US Presidents, a list which excludes women.

This tweaks on that notion. Somebody got angry about it. That person got downvoted. We all learned a tiny lesson about the ways that women get excluded regularly, and how that would make you feel.

If one particular HN poster learned a lesson that not everybody supports them on "I won't complain about lists that exclude women but I will complain about lists that exclude men, and pretend it's about equality", then that's another tiny bonus. Not a big one, but this is the kind of thing that happens in tiny increments.

[account42]

Let's say you are in a group of friends who always buy peanuts to snack on during group events. And because they are all into peanuts they don't consider buying anything else. Now one day its your turn to buy snacks. You don't like peanuts but are a cashew fan. To show your friend how you have been excluded you decide to buy only cashews even though you know they all want peanuts. Do you think this is the best way to encourage snack diversity or will it just discourage people from letting you buy the snacks?