Not sure what in my post indicated that I was offended. The cultural context of the industry might be apparent to you from within that context but not everyone who reads Hacker News lives in that same context. That biological sex and cultural gender are not the same is not something that is held to be true everywhere. Explaining the context we live in is not the same thing as being offended that some either don't understand or dislike that part of our culture. Or to put it another way, don't shoot the messenger.