[joshuaeckroth]

I don't know about "an obsession with 'diversity'" but that was not the point of my comment. The point was to find ways to avoid isolating women. It may happen that in completely "politically correct" disciplines there are, say, more men than women (or vice versa) but why would that be the case? Because of something biological? That's a bit absurd.

It's perfectly ok to value competence and interest-level over diversity. But why are there significantly fewer women in computer science? Because they are less competent or interested for some biological reason? Absurd.

Few women are in computer science for a host of reasons (and probably more we do not know about). Perhaps the slides I pointed out in the presentation are part of the reasons. It's hard to be sure but when we give presentations about joining CS, perhaps we can specifically try to avoid isolating women. (Of course, I have not solidly argued that those particular slides do isolate women.) And I mean specifically, intentionally avoid isolating women. That is, read over the presentation twice; the second reading is to find such issues.