[rectang]

> What hostility?

Look no further than a sibling comment from sjsbdkj: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31090862

> We receive 1 woman candidate application per 20 male on average.

Unsurprising, given the first part of your answer. If a company gaslights women when they say that they face hostility, why would women want to work there?

[honkdaddy]

Will you be answering my question above? I can only assume you've seen it by now.

[rectang]

What's the point? It's a superficial premise and presumes that I'm a rank hypocrite; it looks to me as though you have nothing but contempt for what I might say in response. It's not we're going to have a good faith discussion, this is just gotcha games and ideological battle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

This isn't a formal debate. Nobody owes anybody else a response, and choosing not to reply to baiting posts, opting out of poisonous back-and-forth, is not only not ceding the argument, it's upholding the spirit of the HN guidelines.

If you actually want to engage, try to show that you're actually listening to the person you're engaging with and not throwing rocks at some straw man caricature of them. A good exercise would be to couch your post in terms that your interlocutor might agree with.