Ask HN: Eternal September?

So this hulking Uroborus of an article is at the top right now:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metacontrarianism/

... and this is the central example used to explain countersignaling:

Those who study human romantic attraction warn men not to "come on too strong"... the most desirable men may deliberately avoid doing nice things for women in an attempt to signal they are so high status that they don't need to.

Why?! Why is it that every single intellectual hangout must eventually disintegrate into yet another internet echo chamber where socially aspirational losers can bounce "let's hate on chicks, they are all asking for it anyway" off each other? It took HN a bit longer than Digg or Reddit but here we are, an article quoting Pickup Artists' party line as though it were some sort of social science, upvoted to the very top of Hacker News.

(For the record, that statement is patently untrue - I have been lucky to date several high-status, top-of-the-food-chain men, and they were all very nice and markedly more generous with their time, compliments, etc. than their "lessers", so if you are going to be an a-hole, please have the balls to do it because you want to, not because "those who study romantic attraction" gave you their pseudo-scientific permission... and while I am at it, for the love of god, please do not use those nauseating gender-neutral pronouns, they do nothing to cover up your latent misogyny).

Why am I posting this instead of just signing off and never coming back again? Truly, honestly, I don't know. I've seen the future several times already. I know I am probably just inviting downvotes and general vitriol, or in the very least, accusations of hyperbole (as in, let's all feel grateful that it hasn't yet come down to http://www.reddit.com/r/misogyny/, right?). Or perhaps, there are not enough women on here to care, and not enough men to recognize that I am using a symptom to talk about a larger disease, as opposed to the symptom itself.

Sorry to be such a downer. I guess I fell for HN back in 2008 and it's hard for me to acknowledge that it's over. Is it over? What next?