Judging by that and the fact you throw out "feminist" like it's an insult,
I'm going to say you've got some pretty heavy bias.
Bias? Feminists on twitter? Hypersensitivity and hysteria about sexual harassment at conferences? Spooking male engineers into special consideration just because they're girls? Geekfeminism.org being mentioned by the pycon organizer? Merit being a taboo word? It's a funny joke, I love the name.
Change it.
A higher standard? How about an individual having backbone and integrity to stand firm, hold the line and not supplicate?
You can't simply cry abuse and magically learn data structures and algorithms. You can't tweet or sue (well, suing require hard evidence) your way to gainful employment as an engineer. You also don't need social support to study programming, it's a hobby you can master regardless of what you look like. How did you manage
Thomas Sowell said (pertaining to an article on using the nuke in Japan, but he uses it to test liberal media-hype later):
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions:
1. Compared to what? 2. At what cost? and 3. What are the hard facts?