Contrary to your belief, there is absolutely nothing "patronizing" about supportive events in a hostile environment, a hostile environment created by decades of outright misogyny and sexual harassment, accompanied by decades of sticking ones head in the sand by others - like you and the OP.
The initial request was entirely reasonable. The maintainer in question himself indicates later that the request should have been honored....but he does so only after his erroneous judgment and reasoning (if you can call it that) has to be repeatedly pointed out to him. Then his "response" smacks of nothing more than after-the-fact attempted rationalization for his behavior, followed by just...petulance.
If he worked for me, he'd have been fired. He's the only one who went "ape-shit".
Seriously, if you don't think there is rampant sexism in the tech world, you either have your head buried or you have your own agenda here. Based on your shitty little "mythology" quip, the latter is likely.
I'm a man and you don't speak for me. Don't presume to. Those who are perpetuating sexism and misogyny are the ones who in fact DO care about things like gender, race, and class. Don't ask the rest of us not to respond, right here and now.
This is exactly an appropriate forum to discuss these kinds of issues. They are in fact "tech" issues.
"...incredibly difficult to untangle the effects of culture from those of biology..." followed a few sentences later immediately by dismissal of consideration that "the age of brain structure maturation is determined by which toys a child plays with".
Sigh.
Honest question: do you even read what you fucking write?
Your attempt to rephrase his question to try to suit a silly ideology has nothing to do with "science", is merely your own appeal to emotion, and isn't doing a thing to advance the discussion, moldburg.
Now, do you have anything at all cogent to say about the obvious cultural and economic forces that create differences?
And stop ducking the question, genius. Are you really trying to tell us that the solution to your homelessness problem is to bus people who you magically somehow don't think are from your area clear across the country to a place they almost certainly aren't from?
Save your unsupported observations and your fucking breath.
Your contributions and the contributions of other libertarians in this thread amount to little more than endlessly bleating that (in the opinion of the greedy), greed couldn't possibly have led to financial calamities, and that impediments to greed like democratically elected governments and legislated, popular laws are to blame for financial calamities....the disasters that history has shown repeatedly arise only when those same laws are weakened.
So wonderful to watch this little drama (complete with breathless appeals to get the news media involved) play out today on HN, which appears to have become "Bitcoin News".
A match made in heaven, between this genius financial entrepreneur and this competent, reliable trading platform, seems to at least sum up Bitcoin nicely, if not the brainless economic philosophies underlying this horseshit.
Your examples are unbelievably silly, as both Enron and the financial crisis of 2008 occurred in the context of deregulation of those "traditional markets".
Wanna watch Bitcoin absolutely implode and die? You libertarians keep up your adolescent, blind fervor for nonregulation.
"This guy" has a "sense of entitlement" in your little world....because he's taking care of his daughter, worked at a menial job to make ends meets and while he kept studyting and just got his college degree, programs on the side, just got a new job, and took the time and energy to try to improve conditions for his fellow employees....and then geniuses like you whine about "free condoms" and "entitlement"?