[frahs]

I agree that his comment was not in good taste, but I think he must have simply misread or skimmed the parent comment, or misunderstood.

Your comment is a great example of unnecessary escalation. He made a mistake, no need to pin all this angst about the disconnect between doctors and engineers on one mistaken comment on the internet. While I think the parent commenter should apologize, I think ideally you should too, this is blowing things out of proportions and that's not the kind of dialogue I like to see on HN, or anywhere on the internet.

[killjoywashere]

Fair enough, happy to go first. I hearby apologize for escalating, although the disconnect and it sources stand. What is sufficient remedy? Shall I delete my comments?

[whiddershins]

chill. I personally don't think you really escalated all that much, and outside of the casual misandry (hehe, couldn't resist piling on with another complaint) I got genuine value from reading your comment.