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There's nothing hypothetical or straw-man about his comment. If you surf around english-language forums where the new breed of feminist hangs out, you'll see dozens of posts pretty much exactly like that, all highly liked/upvoted and with huge numbers of responses agreeing and amplifying. Any posts with the message of "hold on, maybe it's not just sexism and he actually has a point" will be downvoted and attract hateful responses: "you sound like just another one of those sexists!".

>>ufmace+(OP)
I mean, can you provide me a link? Because neither Reddit not Hackernews has supplied me with examples so far

>>igorkr+q3
If you haven't seen them yet, it's because you don't wanna see them.

>>igorkr+q3
Here might be a good place to start.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/

>>igorkr+q3
I mostly try to avoid places with a lot of that, though it still feels like it seeps through anyways sometimes. /u/fastball's link is a gold mine of that stuff though.

Most recent example outside of Reddit subs catering to neo-feminists that I can recall is this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/m7f4ln...

Not the literal exact quote, but a fine example of a story about, somebody treated the new hire intern disrespectfully, where the comments go in that direction. Oh wait, it was a woman? Well it definitely must be sexism! Downvote anyone who expresses doubt. It's not like men ever get disrespected and told to sit down and shut up in roles like new hire intern.

>>ufmace+7B
Erm...so maybe Germany is actually more sexist than the US, but I could totally see this happpen to women in germany, less so men. Because, especially in engineering, older workers do sometimes still assume a women in a dress must be a secretary or something. And is your point "well it definitely wasn't sexist?" Because....just because men also get disrespected doesn't mean that this happens a lot more to women? Or are we just abandoning statistics to make feminists evil now?

I was kind of expecting something more...respectful? Like, that's not at all "candid advice misunderstood". That's a person disrespected in a way that happens more to women than men, and people drawing conclusions.