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> Mr. Graham has since said the “these” referred to women who aren’t programmers. In our opinion, he didn’t say that to us. We’re happy for him to have clarifie
by logn 13y ago
> Mr. Graham has since said the “these” referred to women who aren’t programmers. In our opinion, he didn’t say that to us. We’re happy for him to have clarified to the public.
He says it right here, in his second use of "these":
We can’t make these women look at the world through hacker eyes and start Facebook because they haven’t been hacking for the past 10 years.
And for more context prior:
Then if you go look at the bios of successful founders this is invariably the case, they were all hacking on computers at age 13. What that means is the problem is 10 years upstream of us.
Even without context, "these" modifies women; it's a subset. Anyone who thinks "these women" is equivalent to "women" isn't qualified to be a journalist.