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Comment by paganel | Hacker News Reader

> your girl

This is so wrong on so many levels. I pity your female work colleagues. Unless you were talking about a dad purchasing some luxury stuff for his daughter, but I guess you didn't have that in mind.

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Would you please not take HN threads further into ideological flamewar? It leads to nasty and stupid discussions that we neither need nor want.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That’s nothing ideological about telling someone that their way of seeing other human beings as inferior is wrong, as talking about a different person as belonging to someone else (the “your” part) means seeing the other person as being inferior. Yeah, as members of this community we could maybe ignore when other users talk about such views out loud, but that won’t really solve anything, would it?, it would just mean hiding everything under the rug, even empowering said user in his/her views.

That's vastly overinterpreting what the commenter wrote. Please follow the site guidelines when commenting here. They include:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

You used "your" in your comment to refer to women (colleagues) and clearly weren't talking about women as owned livestock. Why not grant them the same usage of possessive pronouns?

> your female work colleagues

Disgusting. They are not his. Is this really how you talk about women?

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