It seems like most of the objections to the OP boil down to "if they're offended that's their problem." The trouble is that it's _our_ problem. How many artic

It seems like most of the objections to the OP boil down to "if they're offended that's their problem." The trouble is that it's _our_ problem. How many articles on HN complain about the lack of qualified programmers or complain that programmers aren't contributing to open source? Why, then, do we not seem to care about driving programmers away from cutting edge tools and open source projects? Whether you think they're reacting correctly is irrelevant. It's outcomes that matter here and the outcome is that women drop out of open source involvement or never even consider it in the first place. When a fair-sized segment of programmers feel ill-treated, the community itself does not prosper as it could.