I'm a very generic white male with absolutely no real notability and because I have some degree of worth in a very small part of the internet I've had people threaten to drive to my apartment and beat me up because I did something they don't agree with -- they never do, but the threats happen. Entirely possible that Adria's gender or race contributed to this, but it definitely happens to white straight males too. You're looking at the wrong end, don't look at the victim, look at the aggressors: anonymity and distance is the cause. There will never be any recourse for those that threaten, so they'll do it until they're blue in the face.

You've never seen Anonymous go nuclear on white supremacists? Or back when they were trolling Tom Green's live web show? etc.

The fact that this is a "Women in Tech" issue is what generated so much publicity, and the publicity is what draws the trolls. If two posters on 4chan's /b/ board had some exchange where one named-and-shamed the other over a penis joke, and he ended up losing his job? I don't think it's hard to imagine Anonymous coming down hard in the perpetrator, whether male or female.

The original tweeter made it about gender, so it wouldn't have worked the same if it were a man.

The posters point is that if a man had been the forefront of a lot of news then death threats would have been thrown at him too.

After spending some time online I'm guessing the response would be pretty much the same, but with more "fag" comments.

Protestant like baptist or something? I guess maybe they could have stirred up some outrage from the religious crowd, over some sort of perceived religious slight? But most issues these days likely to offend fundamentalist protestants are likely to offend fundamentalist catholics too... I don't really know; what are you trying to get at?

Then it would have been about Christianity, or about how technology culture is repressed and not sex positive.

white men are never sent death threats, are you sure?