I agree that they should be discussed, I just find the infrastructure for discussing the issues these days makes it much worse. My speech has certainly been imp

I agree that they should be discussed, I just find the infrastructure for discussing the issues these days makes it much worse. My speech has certainly been improved by polite private reminders from friends over the years. For example "gay", in my hometown, is a ubiquitous synonym for "stupid", but obviously that's unacceptable in retrospect. When I moved away and someone politely noted it to me, I quickly fixed that. But people like these NBC commentators are going to permanently have their names associated with "sexist" as result #1 in Google. And if I ever tried to rationally discuss one of these topics with someone on Facebook, I would 100% be brigaded. Whereas in a group of live people, it's much easier to get to the root of an issue and find common ground. By the way, polite reminder from the HN guidelines: > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."