I think that opinion pieces like this make tech seem inaccessible to a lot of women. I understand that she herself does not like being a "Woman in Tech," but I don't think that her proposed solution to the women in tech problem being throwing away the labels is the right way to go about it.
The author seems to imply that what set her on her course to programming was that she was a tomboy, and that she "loved lots of really technical, computery things that only men know about… Teehee…" For some women, that is how they get into tech. And she's right, those aren't the women who need the support groups. They love the software or love being one-of-the-guys so much that they will not notice or deliberately ignore or tolerate or fight back personally against the harassment. They don't need any special support.
The ones that need these support groups are the same ones that are deterred by articles like this. Some women go into tech DESPITE the fact that it is male dominated, not BECAUSE of it. They are the ones who read thinkpieces like this and say "if all women in tech are so against being woman-like, then maybe tech isn't for me."
That was definitely my first instinct. I got as far as the morse code decrypts to "NETE" before coming back here to check if I was doing something wildly wrong.
I feel like a lot of the commenters here are making a false assumption, arguing "just because you can explain something in simple terms doesn't mean you understand it - look how much nuance and complexity gets lost!" That statement makes the assumption that you must explain the subject to another individual to the point where they understand that subject as well as you do. Well, obviously you are going to lose complexity, just on the basis of explaining something in simple terms. The point is that if you cannot distill something to its core ideas to the point where someone else will gain a basic understanding of that concept, then you do not understand what its core ideas are, and therefore do not understand the concept itself. No one is arguing that what took you 10 years and a PhD to understand is something you can explain "simply" to someone and they will emerge with the same level of understanding as you have. No, they will emerge with a basic understanding of that concept if you have explained it well.