&gt; Do we have to turn everything into a gender issue?<p>Feminists are arguing for things <i>not</i> to be gender issues. People make it a gender issue when they ignore female accomplishments for which men would be honored. Paul Graham explictly made this a gender issue when he praised her for being the &quot;mom&quot;.<p>If you don&#x27;t think talking about these things is valuable, nobody&#x27;s forcing you to talk about them. The participants, me included, don&#x27;t see it as a waste of time, because society has been making steady progress on this for the last hundred years or so. Maybe in another hundred things finally won&#x27;t be intrusively gendered all the time and we can all get back to what we&#x27;re doing. If you&#x27;d like to help, great. If not, maybe let the people who care get on with it?