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> the OP on the ticket seems to have daddy issues. Just bookmarking this for the next time someone insists that the folks on hacker news are an egalitarian bu

• irragal 15y ago
  What exactly is the casual sexism here?
  • wvoq 15y ago
    "Daddy issues" is a sexualized pop-Freudian phrase applied only to women. Lots of men, myself included, had rocky relationships with their fathers that caused some emotional harm and affected their later relationships, but you'll never hear immature or irresponsible men described as suffering from "daddy issues". Moreover, the original request was a completely reasonable one: "I don't know how to turn this feature off: I've tried this and this, but it didn't work. What should I do?" When you ask a technical question and receive irrelevant, sexualized and emotionally condescending comments in response, I think that's prima facie evidence of sexism.