When I said i refrain from ad hominem attacks, i meant in conversation and debating someone else – I don’t dismiss others’ opinions solely by saying “feh, you’re goyish”, because that’s not convincing – true as it may be.
If you wanted to discuss the issue from a historical and sociological perspective (which is what you’re now claiming) I wouldn’t have objected, because there’s nothing wrong with reporting facts about what people did and do – I’d think it were fruitless, but not coming from a treife hashkofa.
Instead you opened with a question, is it hashkafic or generational – you opened up the possibility that the issue is not halachikally sensitive and is just a cultural thing, like how we changed from turbans to black hats. I responded by saying that you can’t divorce a hashkafically sensitive issue from its hashkafic context