&gt; <i>&quot;What would you know about that? You joined less than a year ago.&quot;</i><p>I joined a little more than 200 days before you, and my wife was here a year before me.  She was here just at the end of the &quot;mostly startup and programmer focused&quot; era (she got to experience Erlang Day -- FWIW, here&#x27;s a thread from 8 weeks after you joined that references both Erlang Day and too many stories about non-hacker topics: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1919897" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1919897</a> ).<p>&quot;This isn&#x27;t about programming WTF&quot; has been a complaint on HN for a long, long time.  To the degree that the HN guidelines explicitly say that topics don&#x27;t have to be about programming and startups, they just have to be &quot;intellectually gratifying&quot;.  Cultural perceptions of sexuality and gender as expressed in art are an intellectual topic (though they do tend to attract boring, uninsightful, crude commentary, as seen in the wall of grayed-out comments at the bottom of the page.)