Sure with respect to norms of Governance and policy style, not over whether a woman or a minority deserves to be treated with the same decency as any other human being.
And this is where it ends, no communication happens because each side set its straw man and start attacking their strawman. From what I see, the technical community is mostly neutral, this time the offense is one sided
Also very much part of politics, although not actually at issue anywhere near this debate, as nobody is arguing against those things.
On the contrary, that's the exact issue at the heart of what happened here.