At no point did the manifesto say that “women are bioligically less capable than men are to be good programmers”. It didn’t say that even once. I read it, carefully, and if you do think it said that, you should go read it again because you apparently didn’t understand it the first time around.
The fact is that a lot of the response to it has been predicated on things that it didn’t say and that its author likely doesn’t believe. I’ve even seen someone (who I thought better of) annotate the manifesto with a plethora of “but really you mean…” type statements, mostly alleging that its author holds racist or sexist views, as if that’s a grown up or even reasonable thing to do.
Let me be very clear: I am not saying I agree with what he wrote. But I am saying that he did not write what you and others have claimed, and you should stop saying that he did because it is not helping the situation.
