The article reads so awkwardly because that's exactly the author's point. Unless I completely misread the article, the author is trying to convey to the male r

The article reads so awkwardly because that's exactly the author's point. Unless I completely misread the article, the author is trying to convey to the male reader that the issues female programmers face aren't made up by far leftist feminazis, but rather are very real and very difficult for a man to relate to.