It&#x27;s like everything else though. If you don&#x27;t normally interact with a field you&#x27;re only going to get the dramatic content. If you&#x27;re a web developer you won&#x27;t see the 99% of times Linus Torvalds is normal, because that won&#x27;t be relevant to you as you don&#x27;t do kernel development. If you go look up pretty much any feminist icon (e.g. at TED) they are usually very thoughtful.<p>It would be interesting to see him elaborate on that, because he normally has a quite &quot;hard&quot; debating style himself. He has repeatedly spoken out for not having to limit what you say and against things like political correctness, and also approved things like hellbanning and &#x27;downvote to disagree&#x27; on Hacker News.