It's a community thing, I guess. Meaning, it depends on which community (online community in this context) you are interacting in. Such a thing wouldn't be so risky to say on 4chan or even Slashdot.
And I think it divides the community and makes discussion of these topics difficult if not impossible. I don't really like communities where certain well thought out, even completely innocuous or carefully worded opinions are discarded automatically and treated with ridicule just because of some dogmatic allegiance to whatever topic. I get that it's the internet and people tend to be perpetually angry and combative about stuff, but other topics that don't regard feminism are much easier to discuss. Maybe I should just try to avoid all of the gender or race topics on HN because it seems like questioning anything just leads to flame wars.
