The parent comment points to an article presenting a hypothesis. The reply flatly drops an assertion which will predictably derail conversation away from any discussion of the article.
If you’re going to make a comment like that, and if you prefix it with something along the lines of “The hypothesis in the article seems superfluous to me; men in all cultures treat women like children because...”, and you point to sources for this claim, then I would confidently predict no downvotes will result.
(ETA: well, in this case the downvote is mine, which makes prediction a little too easy—but the point stands.)
This conversation has been hacked.
The parent comment points to an article presenting a hypothesis. The reply flatly drops an assertion which will predictably derail conversation away from any discussion of the article.
If you’re going to make a comment like that, and if you prefix it with something along the lines of “The hypothesis in the article seems superfluous to me; men in all cultures treat women like children because...”, and you point to sources for this claim, then I would confidently predict no downvotes will result.
(ETA: well, in this case the downvote is mine, which makes prediction a little too easy—but the point stands.)
Thanks! I won’t be able to do the work required on this right now, but will later tonight.
Wow, that’s a great link.