I guess I'm just retarded???

No, you're not retarded, but you could provide a better explanation for why it never occurred to you that you have a bias during a flamewar.

I humbly recommend you cancel any votes for or against me in exchanges you've been involved in.

Done.

Holy ----! Since I last came here an hour or so ago, my karma shot up about a hundred points.

I don't know how much of that was you, but I very much appreciate that you are taking my suggestion.

I agree that drive-by mass downvoting out of personal animosity is bad, and it is of course unjust that you have apparently been subjected to it. But again, you should also consider that a nontrivial proportion of your recent karma loss has been because people legitimately find many of your recent comments to be of low-quality.

I accounted for this already. There were severe downmods for recent comments, accumulating over the past 18 hours. Then, in a much shorter period, I lost ~30 more, mainly on much older comments.

For example, your tone is oftentimes rather hostile and condescending ("Can you do it? No? Then you don't have a point,"

I accept that my tone has gotten worse recently. But please, take a second look at that exchange. You refuted one analogy with another one which revealed you didn't understand the topic. To untangle your misunderstanding required me to restate the context of the conversation, and then spell out the mapping in your proposed analogy, basically, doing all the intellectual heavy lifting for you.

I derived what your analogy needed to contain for it to be relevant to my point. But, if you could present such evidence, or even realize its applicability, you would have already done so.

And so I had to spend far disproportionate time responding to you, compared to your investment in the discussion. Yes, I could have said something instead, like, "Is there a quote from a men's magazine that meets the criteria? I don't think there is, which is what you need to make your point applicable." But please understand my frustration there.

I didn't touch the old threads but last night I did vote down an entire thread of argument between you and thomblake (voting down each of your posts). This might have been part of your conspicuous drop. Nothing against either of you but when the argument is just about what you said or didn't say it is of little interest to anyone else here and should be taken to private messages if you want to continue. I don't know how else to kill bad, useless arguments that clog the recent comments section except to vote every comment in them down. If people feel this is inappropriate please let me know and I won't do it in the future.

It would be nice if the people downvoting you would state who they were and why (It's not me). I can think of two hypotheses:

A) There's a cabal of feminists trying to suppress your view and you in particular

B) People in general have judged your comments in these threads of less quality

A) sounds unlikely (due to the sort of people who seem to frequent this site) but I will grant that it's possible, and B) agrees with my own subjective judgment.

If you've lost karma on really old posts in unrelated topics then it would seem to be reasonable to conclude that one or two people are irrationally voting you down, however...

How old? If it's less than a week, it might just be somebody catching up on old comments. (If it's more than a week, that would be suspicious, of course.)

If it's that certain, then it will probably get enough downvotes from people not involved in the discussion.