Github is providing a space where women can store code they're working on and get feedback from select peers before releasing it publicly and they're being vilified for it? This is absurd, I've done exactly this with every piece of code I've ever released and I know many other devs who do the same, most OSS projects do so at some point in their lifetimes.

Github providing a private repo for free simply lowers the bar to getting started a little further and that can only be a good thing. Against the principles of open source? What the hell does that even mean.