I have enough faith in women to think that for every radical feminist who jumps ship because of this, two reasonable women will enter IT.
Who knows, actual female developers might be put off by radical feminism using them for their agenda.
Who knows, actual female developers might be put off by radical feminism using them for their agenda.
Besides, it seems possible that women who work at GitHub don't quit because JAH is gone, if some accounts are true (ie the Jane Doe on Medium article).
But you are right, the JAH incident itself probably doesn't motivate anyone to join IT (neither men nor woman).
Then again, perhaps eliminating drama from IT (by eliminating drama people) will in the long run entice those women to join.
Further, this is concerning a person with a power disadvantage in their environment who is going to be subject to the array of classic silencing techniques that criticize not her argument but her person.
Interestingly enough you're using one as well classifying the response as "radical feminism". This discredits their position because they were "too aggressive". It is another argument that adds nothing because it attacks their tone and not ideas.
Also this fits pretty well: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Innocent_until_proven_gui...