So the top comment here on HN is the one that minimizes the possibility of the incident being rooted in sexism. What a shock. There's a strange mindset at work

So the top comment here on HN is the one that minimizes the possibility of the incident being rooted in sexism. What a shock. There's a strange mindset at work here. Everyone perfectly well knows sexism is a real thing that happens in billions of incidents all over the world every single day. Yet somehow the possibility that somewhere, sometime, an accusation of sexism might have been misjudged to some degree, gets some people revved up.