It took me up too now to realise it wasn't written by a guy, so.

I think it's the public ridicule aspect which is new, thanks to everyone using twitter like it's their backyard, and forgetting it's a mouthpiece to the entire earth.

No. The hot button topic right now in open source is "increasing diversity" which means more attention is being focused on this.

Yes. I didn't realize the post was written by a woman until I read comments here.