I fail to see how she turned it into a gender issue with those words. She's a woman and she's entitled to the use of the correct pronoun. Do you wish she had written "I won't be the nice guy anymore"? That would have sounded ridiculous.

Please note that when she points out Linus' behaviour, it is not because she got flamed. She did not get yelled at. The whole issue has nothing to do with her sex.

You are trying to turn it into a gender issue, which it is not - regardless of Sarah's stances on that matter.

This is also pretty telling: >Snort. Perhaps we haven't interacted very often, but I have never seen you be nice in person at KS. Well, there was that one time you came to me and very quietly explained you had a problem with your USB 3.0 ports, but you came off as "scared to talk to a girl kernel developer" more than "I'm trying to be polite".

While verbal abuse is not acceptable, neither is the male-shaming language she is using there.

She is not making it into a gender issue. That statement is just the same as if it was a guy making a stand and wrote:

  I won't be the nice guy anymore.

I don't understand how that turns it into a gender issue. Should she have said "nice guy" instead?