As someone who's played a few rounds in HN discussions on sexism, I'll put it this way: on HN, there are a decent number of legitimate feminists. There are enou

As someone who's played a few rounds in HN discussions on sexism, I'll put it this way: on HN, there are a decent number of legitimate feminists. There are enough to put up a fight when a fight needs to be had. When a discussion thread starts getting bad, there are enough of us that you can usually expect to see someone step in and not feel completely alone in engaging. Even better, a decent number of those who are willing to speak out are also capable of doing it reasonably and coherently with an eye towards explaining the issues understandably. That doesn't mean the people they're talking with are convinced; people are almost never convinced like that. And best of all, we aren't downvoted into oblivion when we take such stands. I've gotten some significant chunks of karma for being the feminist in a thread. If all of this labels us "anti-sexist", I'm cool with it.