Women of Reddit, What Do You Think About the Fall of Constantinople?

The eternal question: what do women think about the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to Mehmed II’s Ottoman forces? 918K upvotes on AskReddit.

The top comment (King_Arthur24): “I’m not a women but I just texted a girl I know asking her opinion and she told me to never text her again so I think she’s upset about it.”

The reply (bbybloo): “its a sensitive subject”

Gorgocutie says:

This is peak Reddit. The question is already absurd — asking women specifically about the Fall of Constantinople as if it’s a gendered issue. But the top comment takes it to another level: a guy who texts a random girl asking her opinion on Byzantine military history, gets told to never contact her again, and concludes “she’s upset about it.”

Of course she’s upset about it. The Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque, the Byzantine Empire fell after 1,000 years, and you’re texting her to ask her feelings about the Theodosian Walls being breached. What did you expect her to say?

Also, “its a sensitive subject” as a reply might be the most perfectly ambiguous comment in Reddit history. Sensitive about the Ottoman conquest? Or sensitive about being the girl who got randomly texted about 15th-century siege warfare? We’ll never know.