It rocketed to the front page without any relation to HN's usual topics. And it looked like something that the manosphere/traditionalist/right-wing-droning-youtubers would see as a vindication of their ideas. e.g. https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/974377252212346880
It is a little strange to have to take one person's letter to an advice columnist and use it as grist for which gender has it worse, but, that's their obsession I guess.
Even if we agree for the sake of argument that today, men and women have reached parity when it comes to career opportunity, that doesn't instantaneously undo the decades/centuries of traditional notion that a woman is not complete without marriage and motherhood. Men face the same pressure, but nowhere near the magnitude, nor the inherent limitations.
