It kinda pisses me off that the second line of the body became a sexist joke phrase title in hacker news. If you're not clued in on sexism: The stereotype reinforcement that women are dumb with technology is the punchline. It doesn't matter that there was actually an issue with the pipeline from OpenOffice -> Cups, but the hacker news title was cleverly crafted to reinforce a stereotype. I don't care that this will b…
I personally read it this morning and honestly it didn't register to me in the way you're describing at all. I did not use the title as a sexist joke as you're saying, nor did I think that his wife is "dumb" because she thought that something is wrong with OpenOffice. The joke (if there's one) is that there's a twist, which is that programmers expect the worst description from non-technical users when explaining bugs, and "something doesn't work on Tuesdays" sounds a little absurd at first (like most interesting bugs). But even if it had occurred to me, omitting it just for the sake of not having the potential negative connotation is even worse imho.
I haven't seen a single comment in this entire thread that addresses the issue as you're suggesting, not even hinting at it. Just because you thought that it could possibly have that implication doesn't mean that it actually does.