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> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

By all means, fork Git and require a minimum 50% female membership. If you are successful, more power to you.

You are actually criticizing women for how they spend their free time while claiming to help them.

What have you contributed? Where is your name on the Git commit history? Where does your name appear among the credits for outreach work?

The comment you replied to does feel somewhat disingenuous and perhaps unproductive, but it's possible they're merely lamenting the state of affairs rather than intending to criticize anyone who works (or doesn't) on Git.

So what?

What's in a name?