When this discussion was initially ignited a while back, I had wondered whether I should seek the opinion of my girlfriend regarding this topic. She is a brill

When this discussion was initially ignited a while back, I had wondered whether I should seek the opinion of my girlfriend regarding this topic. She is a brilliant software engineer who switched out of CS into another major, despite having top grades. I finally caved and asked her to read the original memo. Whilst she found the memo interesting, she mentioned this is the view of a single person and found it ridiculous that it caused such an outcry. She is all for diversity in tech (and for all industries for that matter) and pointed out that the hypersensitivity nature of CS causes much harm than good. While we are busy doing roundabout discussions regarding a memo, personal data of millions of people are being leaked, privacy and security of people are in jeopardy because we fail to make high quality software. It truly sadden both of us that the brilliant minds in our Industry are focused on what should/should not be written in a personal memo, than actually pushing the boundaries of software. When a thought provoking community such as HN calls for arms every time this topic comes up and turns into a battlefield, I do wonder whether we have already lost the fight for TRUE diversity.