bludgeon

Now you can bludgeon the next guy who posts a PHP rant with a link to this one.

That doesn't mean "so you can bludgeon an intruder with it" it means "so you can shoot an intruder with it".

And when SGI and Microsoft paniced when it got out, well it became a bludgeoning club which they used to bludgeon people they didn't like.

It is very off-putting to have a company bludgeon it's user with the personal politics of it's runners.

Instapaper, as any such product, is a service to its users, not a bludgeon for political battles.

To bludgeon the equine, people that can significantly advance our understanding of such things tend to win Nobel prizes and similar.

The established movie industry uses its content rating system as a bludgeon against independent filmmakers.

And there's a small population of middle management douchebags that are trying their best to use their tiny bit of authority as a club to bludgeon the public and tell people what to do.

The other big non sequitur in this argument is that Apple and Microsoft claim that Android steals their own hard-won inventions but they're buying up other companies' IP to bludgeon Android with.

You're selfishly focused on a comparatively wealthy, privileged subgroup that apparently has nothing better to do -- despite a world filled with real problems, including sexism -- than bludgeon people for failing to highlight "triggers".This sort of disproportionate nonsense is exactly why I can't feel safe or comfortable around your segment of the tech industry.