Delmania was responding to stirfrykitty's argument that SJWs are ruining things, not Torvalds' specific arguments.

Their comment wasn't a strawman, but rather on point. Anecdotally, as a university student, I've seen plenty of times in group projects and asking/answering questions in class where opinions brought by both female and not-native (intersectionally, compounded) students are belittled or discarded.