And in two hours, this one will have twice as many comments as that post got over the course of days.

Pedophile-paranoia is a real problem, but let's be clear - if there's anything that will rile HN posters, it's the idea that some straight, white guy somewhere might get a raw deal.

Could just be that the other story actually related to the software industry - it's Hacker news after all. Why the persecution complex?

Link to that? I must have missed it.

Which article are you referring to ?

This one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110756

Obv there are more comments here now :-)

It's funny how that works - a brand new article not having much commentry. No such thing as confirmation bias, eh?

Oh, come on - he gave it a full eight minutes before complaining that some girl got more attention in a thread on her post.

Just pointing out that men face real, actual discrimination, whereas actually there is nothing preventing women working IT jobs if they want to.

Cry us a river, gaius. If things like this article count as "real, actual discrimination", then pretty much every women-in-tech complaint includes tales of "real, actual discrimination".

THe article? No. The underlying fact that innocent men are hounded from their jobs by the cops they pay to protect them? Absolutely yes.

And innocent women aren't hounded from their tech jobs by the 'boys club' that is IT?

It's not a competition.