Incidentally, someone in the last few hours apparently went through and downvoted almost everything I've written in the last few days, including a bunch of comments completely unrelated to the feminism/HPMoR issue.

It couldn't be me. I had already downvoted most of your feminism politics comments on perceived merit at the time I noticed them in the recent comments thread so cannot downvote further.

It is intriguing what provokes controversy here.

It was briefly intriguing once, three years ago. Now it is tiresome and predictable.