All good points. Men really don't get this issue from the female perspective. But umm, showing up on a male dominated board, picking a few admittedly lame comm

All good points. Men really don't get this issue from the female perspective. But umm, showing up on a male dominated board, picking a few admittedly lame comments and then busting on the entire group for their cluelessness? I also saw a great deal of support for Noirin, a great deal of concern for the state of the tech community and some really good discussion on how the problem might actually be fixed. There exists an enormous asymmetry in power between men and women when it comes to sex, and so it generates equally large asymmetry in consequence when it comes to accusing men of misdeeds. This causes a great deal of fear and mistrust from both sides, which leads to huge differences in perspective. (Sorry to go Yoda there) To say this causes lively debate is somewhat of an understatement.