It's not like she was holding HN up as a paragon of "female-friendliness." I wanted a "perfect-world" perspective, as opposed to "why HN is better than Reddit,

It's not like she was holding HN up as a paragon of "female-friendliness." I wanted a "perfect-world" perspective, as opposed to "why HN is better than Reddit, while still not being all that great." It seems she's moved on though, alas, as her perspective no doubt would have made interesting reading. As far as your other points go, I've been in my shares of locker rooms and I certainly don't detest locker-room banter, nor do I self-identify as a feminist, but to each his or her own I suppose.