I used this article to explain REST to so, so many non-technical folks, as well as techies who were enamored with SOAP. You are right about the gender issue be

I used this article to explain REST to so, so many non-technical folks, as well as techies who were enamored with SOAP. You are right about the gender issue being a loss for the community. Now this article is taken down because people are stupid and lack nuance when their emotions kick in. There was never anything misogynistic about this article, but now because of an absurd responsibility of authors to never possibly offend the ignorant, or the knee-jerk reactionaries, or the (I hate to say it) offended for the sake of attention people. The professional victimization cult that has hijacked gender and race issues on so many fronts take away from real victims of real gender and race discrimination. These professional victim cults are easy to recognize: they will do absolutely nothing to help victims of discrimination unless they belong to one particular group that they identify with. How many parenting articles written by women discriminate against "bumbling men" who "can't handle the kids?" Where are these groups then? My mother bailed on my 4 siblings and I when I was 3, and left my dad to take all of us on. She never paid a cent of child support, but I had to grow up watching crap like "choosy mom's choose JIF" and "Dr. Mom recommends Robitussin." My mother was a drug addict, and a feminist organization paid her legal bills when she tried to take us away from my father after being gone for 5 years. They never once asked me or my siblings what we thought, for them there was a bigger battle to fight that was beyond the immediate victims. The professional victim cults don't care about discrimination, they just care about the streams of funding they get from particular special interest groups. In the meantime, take a look at high school graduation rates of females vs. males, and ask yourself who needs more help these days.