It feels like we went through the yesterday.

"to argue that engineering or coding should be left to those with the most abstract skill is akin to saying structural engineers should design buildings or that mechanical engineers should market cars."

This is not what the manifesto argued.    What he suggested was NOT that women should not code.  What he argued was that a much lower proportion of women WANT to code.     

I have no idea if that is true,  but things he actually wrote are bad enough, so can people read them before writing columns to respond?

For that matter, are there any more molehills columnists want to bravely scale?  The manifesto got enough public condemnation to get the guy fired, but we still need a column a day arguing for or against the argument that most people dismissed as offensive from the jump?