There's a range between blunt (saying "this is a mistake" with no sugar-coating) and being nasty ("only a stupid person could have made that mistake").

I don't know why there are so few women here, and I'm not sure anyone else does, either. It's hard to poll people who aren't around.

I used to see comments here which assumed a male point of view as universal and that got on my nerves, but I haven't seen anything like that for a while, except for what I'm replying to. ("So we know to be nice to them" implies that there are no women who are real members of LW.)

I've got a male friend who doesn't like LW, but it's because he finds it too smug. Admittedly, this is only one data point, but at least it's an actual data point about someone who's probably not going to be a regular reader rather than a hypothetical.