So "Commenting in an inflammatory way" is trolling that deserves a warning before banning. But obvious sexism directed at belittling the skill of female progr

So "Commenting in an inflammatory way" is trolling that deserves a warning before banning. But obvious sexism directed at belittling the skill of female programmers (Some of whom are regular HN readers) doesn't warrant a ban in itself? Saying "There are no good [insert-race-or-sex-or-sexual-orientation-here] programmers" is not just an off-hand inflammatory comment. It's an attack on a portion of your own reader base who already are frequently made to feel out of place here. This assumption that most women didn't properly "earn" their status as engineers and can't be true equals to male peers is misogyny through and through. I've had a customer on AWS support not take my troubleshooting seriously (on a subject I was the top expert on no less),and demand to be transferred for no reason. I transferred him, then literally fed the other engineer the exact words I was giving him before and troubleshooter through his chat, and suddenly the customer was happy. The only difference was that my name was obviously female, and my coworker's name was obviously male. The effects of this mentality on a woman's career are real, and its lame. Kind of shocking to see you so non-chalant about it when some of your YC peers like Cadran have done so much to bring attention to it. I'm all for free discussion on HN, but anyone who says that is not engaging in good faith.