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Please don't take HN threads on trivial tangents, such as arguing about pronouns when the topic isn't pronouns (which admittedly can be interesting in their own right—but not like this). I get that you also said something about the topic, but that doesn't matter because off-topic provocations always win.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14206390 and marked it off-topic.



I was replying to his post in traditional bottom-posting order, not taking his words out of sequence.

It wasn't an argument about pronouns, just noting that Mr. Wisenberg's gender is known.

And my substantive point remains, I think, unaddressed.

My comment was on-topic. The responses to it (to include my own follow-ups) were off-topic, but my comment was on-topic.




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