[jd0]

This can look like "victim-blaming", but it's really more-than-anything a yearning for people to keep their standards of evidence high

I don't buy it. The "hacker type" despite self-professing as a logical bunch falls prey to all of the logical fallacies and cognitive biases that any other opinionated group does. The evidence is already out there, this is one of many incidents following a trend of sexism in this industry that has been going on for decades.

Github does not exist in a vacuum and real life social interaction doesn't use variables beyond a distant abstract analysis.