Global Gender War

...the HN-reader crowd you mean? Yupp! : )

Yeah, like this isn't really how most people feel, he's really just pleasing an audience for views, page hits, and viewership growth.

Or, he's finally reached a level of success where he is independent enough to be able to freely say [1] what he thinks without fear of negative consequences resulting from a media backlash.

Unlike what Tim Hunt had to go through.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html