Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But I don't think I'll convince you to see it my way, so I'll drop this. You managed to have your say, which was just as snide as hers, so now I'll have mine. > To be clear, this is a book extract, not something she wrote for the guardian, but for someone who picked up her book to read. If this has a relevance, I fail to see it. > She says many of you. Why are you including yourself in the many, if you already knew…
I don't think this comment section is supposed to be a competition. Neither do I think the article was a sneer towards others, but a way to ask for empathy for a certain situation. It wasn't about you, and you don't need to make it about you.
Or perhaps you can quote where I made it about me, here's the link to my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30885603
And this is the comment in its entirety, just pick it out for me:
> > But as the myths are so firmly embedded into popular (mis)understanding, I don’t have the luxury to skip over them, so it is just a sad reality that I have to waste even more of my time to bring many of you up to speed.
> As the quote shows, the article is full of sneering, it’s just a sad fact that I have to waste my time pointing it out to you.
> Apologies for that but I think directing her words towards you exposes the sneer without any doubt.
Good luck.