Hector Martin

Because it directly hurts part of his potential audience, and alienates another part that cares about the former.

Why don’t you build an audience and talk like you like and let other people be. You know... tolerant against other opinions.

Because what he's doing hurts people, and his opinions are actively harmful towards minorities in STEM. That's like saying "let Trump be, he just has opinions". Opinions make a difference.

Opinions don’t harm, actions do.

Opinions spread among people, and influence people's actions. Like that part where he says women engineers ended up on magazine covers because they're women. Words also directly do harm. Like using "tranny", which isn't just offensive but *hurtful* towards trans people.

But he is 100% right! They are on the covers because they are women because the journalists want to promote women in STEM because there are very few. Is it forbidden now to tell the truth because someone’s feelings are hurt? That’s not STEM-like. It’s about truth to gain more

Saying they got there because they're women erases their accomplishments and replaces them with their gender. Most Wired covers are men.

So? When 90%+ of the people in tech are men it’s no issue that 90%+ featured are men. There are few women who got recognized by their own as all them men have to be recognized. Stop caring about the gender so much and focus on what matters in tech: skills.