This looks like a fantastic resource, but I was off put by the (albeit tongue-in-cheek) 'RMUVI - Real Men Use VI' line in the article.
Some time ago, I would have just assumed you were an emacs user, but these days there's a much larger diversity of people on the internet, who get offended by very many things.
We prefer “firefighter.”
The author should write whatever he pleases. But I believe it would be proper to use a language directed to a broader audience when writing a public blog post. I also believe that the author was trying to be funny and had no bad intents what so ever, but either way these tiny things matter if we ever want to see diversity in our field.
I would also like to add that your argumentation is quite unpleasant to me. I read it as you believe that diversity is this annoying thing that destroys the good ol' "all dude internet". Would you care to clarify what you meant?
Tomorrow I'll write "real hackers use vi" and someone who has never programmed and has no interest in it will correct me that they're offended - they like the article, but don't self-identify as a hacker, so my usage would offend them. That's fine, I can use other words and people can only get offended at a finite set of them, but I do need to be told where my mistake is.
So you're saying that men (read: dudes) can't be offended by this, also? That insults me.
Seriously though: "real men" phrases are often used in a serious way to try to police men's behaviour (you probably know this already, but anyway). So I, as a man, often feel queasy about "real men" quips. But real men aren't supposed to feel uneasy about such things, so I don't know.. ;)
I don't personally feel uneasy about this: it feels like satire that plays on the old trope of "real men do <thing that is hard, often unnecessarily so>", and all over "trivial" things like text editors. I can see how some people might be offended by the phrase, though. I'm just talking for myself here.
(I hope no vi users were offended by this post.)
Clarifucation: She is a true knight, not a toy, and embodies all the knightly virtues. This included "hoher muot", of which there isn't enough of going round of that.