Was this posted somewhere else? I've seen instances where posts get onto the front page within 60 seconds because lots of people were submitting the same link.
And once something's on the front page, it's easy to get 50 upvotes in 10 minutes.
Maybe people enjoy a bit of positivity about partially successful efforts towards diversity. It sometimes feels like all efforts towards it get little recognition and only more risks of being falsely accused. So when someone says something along the lines of "Some people are great, even males", it gets upvotes.
