I have to be honest and say I simply didn’t see anything remotely objectionable about the comment that started this whole thing, either - people are really getting upset at someone describing women’s sport as “unwatchable” and instead of going “Well OK, that’s a bit hyperbolic but yes, I take your view that you don’t find women’s sport to be nearly as ‘watchable’ as the men’s counterpart” and moving on, we’re here.
I mean, there’s a pit thread “Air Canada is the worst carrier ever”, a statement that is objectively not true and in the same vein as the comment that started this thread, and at best the OP in the Air Canada thread is getting a couple of gentle disagreements with the idea they might be the worst airline ever. What no-one in that thread is doing is losing their shit over what is clearly a hyperbolic statement, and I’m really not sure why that thread is getting a pass on the hyperbole but the topic in this one isn’t, especially when the view that started this thread isn’t considered particularly controversial by a very large number of people.