> Your assertion that women "need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development" is insulting and distasteful. Please, please for t

> Your assertion that women "need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development" is insulting and distasteful. Please, please for the love of root do not use rhetoric like this. It's hollow posturing that offers nothing beyond scolding someone for the sin of not agreeing with you. Being insulting is not the same as being wrong. Being distasteful is not the same as being wrong. Only one thing is the same as being wrong, and that's being wrong. I know this is an insulting, disrespectful, and distasteful thing to say... but being offended does not make you right. So I have a question for you: why did you write the first line of your comment?