The saddest part about this spectacle is that the author and his detractors are literally talking past one another. The author did not say that his female coll

The saddest part about this spectacle is that the author and his detractors are literally talking past one another. The author did not say that his female colleagues can't do tech. He's saying that the pool of talent in general population might not be the same size across genders. A quick glance at CS graduation statistics shows that is basically true today. This is the same point that led in part to Larry Summers losing his job, when he dared wonder aloud about why there weren't more female academics. If you're going to fire a man, you should at least do it for what he actually did.