Female dev's outburst against Torvalds was planned

> Essentially, Sharp is trying to do what many women are doing these days - push an organisation or project to function in a way that they dictate.

Seriously?

While the arguments against swearing in the LKML strike me as lame, at best, I find the "see, what can we expect from women" attitude of this article much worse. It could just point out how absurd Sharp's position is (from the author's perspective) but this sexist crap just makes the article very weak IMO.

Bad code is bad code. This is not a gender issue.

Well, what exactly do you expect from people consorting with openly sexist organisations?

Why is writing criticism and announcing it in social media (what the article seems to call “planned”) a bad thing?

> Essentially, Sharp is trying to do what many women are doing these days - push an organisation or project to function in a way that they dictate.

Citation needed.

Overall, this article adds nothing new to the debate.

Whenever female tries something misguided, it's female thing. When men do that, they are just individual assholes. Feminist might write the same article about Linus called "Male outburst faces opposition."

I admit that there may be correlation why Sharp is so vocally upset and his sex, but it's not the main issue. The issue is that he and some other people don't have experience of working in environment where raw and frank communication works well. Their only experience is from situations and cultures where it don't work.

Basically LKML has similar culture like highly competitive firms have in their boardrooms (Apple, MS, GE). If you fuck up and don't correct your behavior, you should feel hurt and miserable. The assumption is that people treat strong and emotionally loaded feedback as challenge and don't need affirmation for their self worth from the boss. This does not work in 9-5 jobs where people treat works as way to feed their family, of course.

Swearing is the only language spoken proficiently by programmers.

The biggest hurdle to women in the world of work, tech and everything is other women. The shrieking vocal minority of gynosaurs make life much harder for the majority who work hard and would like to be recognised for their contributions and achievements.

The feminist dogma has always been about telling others (especially women) what they shouldn't or couldn't do, rather than any kind of empowerment, well apart from the ego trip of a few of the most hardcore and ardent campaigners when they managed to get a law passed or some organisation to change how they operate based on their narrow view of the world.