Why are people downvoting an author asking that people maybe take a moment to check whether they're responding to a woman before they write "he"? Is it that much hassle to check a byline?
But yeah, downvoting a correction is silly.
versus
The vast majority of tech writers and geeks in general being male
Downvoting the guy pointing out the incorrect assumption is unwarranted, yeah, but the assumption is one that'll be correct really, really often.
By the way - the "guy pointing out the incorrect assumption" is a girl.
I'm laughing. :)