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I see this type of comment and attitude way more often than I think is healthy, at least on HN. I think it's intellectual anxiety and or toxic masculinity.

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It’s nothing of the sort. It’s the kind of reply you’d get if you tried to answer a exam question with nonsense words that doesn’t advance the conversation, at least intellectually. Your claim of toxic masculinity is absurd. People want to talk rationally and it can be very frustrating to have nonsense smeared all over a thread.

With no disrespect, I see it again in this reply. It's the need for rationality or else which is what I'm talking about.

I see this attitude as a type of violence against alternative views, ideas and the imagination itself.

maybe because that subject has something esoteric about it which provokes reflexive disregard in some people.

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