Stop. "Weak Men Are Super Weapons" is truly worth a read. It's not one-sided, it doesn't pick fights and it's quite fair to both sides. Smearing language on a

Stop. "Weak Men Are Super Weapons" is truly worth a read. It's not one-sided, it doesn't pick fights and it's quite fair to both sides. Smearing language on a subset of a group can rapidly cause long-term smearing on the larger group and it's completely expected and fair for innocents to want to protect themselves from the effects of this. I'll quote from the article: So the one problem is that people have a right not to have unfair below-the-belt tactics used to discredit them without ever responding to their real arguments. And the other problem is that victims of nonrepresentative members of a group have the right to complain, even though those complaints will unfairly rebound upon the other members of that group. I strongly recommend that everybody in the tech community reads it. It's not enough to just look at what people believe, take offence and respond before understanding them. You have to treat people with respect and be careful not to unduly tar each other with the same brush.