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Your phrasing implies that people are overreacting and being ridiculous. A more neutral phrasing-- something like "Why are people so angry about gender issues?" or "Why do gender issues get so much attention?"-- probably would have gone over better.
Heh. I went with that word choice because it's a funny little idiom. I like English idioms; my language is not as entertaining in this aspect. But you're right, it isn't optimized for upvotes.
It's sounds like you ran afoul of a subcutlural difference-- one of the aspects of the anti-racism and related feminism memeplex is assuming that what metaphors people use tell you a lot about what they're actually thinking, and in particular that hostility and culpable ignorance get revealed that way.
‘Using “lame” as an insult is ableist!’ (By which logic, using “bad” as an insult is binarist.)
Not quite, in that many more people understand "lame" to describe someone who can't easily walk than understand "bad" to describe someone who exists on a gender binary, and what I expect people to actually understand by a word does have something to do with what words I chose.