I believe it is these tangential code-cowboy qualities women are unable or unwilling to emulate, and not their skill or capacity for abstraction, problem solving, creative thinking, or communication - All of which actually make them better developers. I believe CS and Web Development currently select for certain masculine qualities that are largely unrelated to someone’s prowess as a coder.
Can't you say that about any form of discrimination? 'So what if all the nice houses and neighborhoods and schools and drinking fountains and restrooms and universities are all restricted to white people? Can't you be happy for them? Why rain on someone else's parade?' There are good arguments to be made for reverse discrimination, but 'can't you be happy for someone else?' isn't one of them. Why not be happy for the female students? Why rain on someone else’s parade? Something good happening to someone else seems to disgust fringley.
On someone's complaint about Google setting up a special grant program for women, OP writes:
