I haven&#x27;t thought about &quot;Voices From The Hellmouth&quot; in a really long time.  I remember reading Slashdot a ton in high school and college (maybe 97 or 98 through 02?).  Then, not so much.  FWIW, HN, esp when I first found it a few years ago, reminded me a lot of what I loved about the discussion on Slashdot back in the day.<p>Anyway, the actual point of this comment:  much of what&#x27;s described in &quot;Voices From The Hellmouth&quot; would now fit comfortably under the currently fashionable term &quot;microagression.&quot;  I&#x27;d bet that many posters on HN and elsewhere who think that microaggressions aren&#x27;t a thing worth real concern, are also the sorts of people who were&#x2F;are picked on in the way that &quot;Hellmouth&quot; catalogs so vividly.<p>And for the record, I&#x27;m not saying that the prevailing view on HN is that microaggressions aren&#x27;t real, or that most people who deny them were bullied geeks.  Just that there are probably a lot of bullied or formerly bullied geeks who deny the significance of such social ostracism, even though they experienced it themselves.<p>Ironic, but not unexpected: people without power often end up at odds with one another when they should be looking for common ground and empathizing with one another.  Still, sad.  I always find it really painful to watch minorities be racist, to watch geeks pick on other geeks for lacking social graces, to watch women be unfeminist, etc.  Well, sometimes it&#x27;s darkly hilarious.  But still painful.