@Phill:

I agree with you, for the record, but the above is just not true. Some people might’ve gone “tut, tut, how disagreeable” but at best a small vocal minority might write a couple of disparaging tweets and it would’ve been ignored at large.

Even when people do dumb misogynistic stuff *in a conference talk* it tends to be buried amongst all the people defending the idiots from the “feminazis” and “white knights”.

Is that conference talk about something in particular? (Genuine question, not arguing!) I'd be interested to see a link, because the whole idea of the Apple "community" being hostile to women is just baffling to me.

However, we would not be having this conversation if it weren’t so deliciously ironic that a woman was being sexist towards other women.

Don’t use that as an excuse to pretend we’re paragons of virtue.

I definitely wouldn't describe the apple "punditry" (stupid word) as paragons of virtue. I didn't spend much time trying to counter the accusation that people writing about Apple can often be smug, exclusionary, and hostile, because a lot of the time, they are. I've just never seen a case of its being misogynistic. If anything, I've gotten a sense that Apple conventions and conferences treat gender as a non-issue, ever since I first started going to Mac User Groups in 1988 and was surprised at how many women were present.

No doubt people are getting off on the irony of Violet Blue getting called out for saying something misogynistic. But I wouldn't call that "a woman was being sexist towards other women," as much as "a woman who has built so much of her public persona on being pro-woman was being sexist towards other women." Gender may be more or less a non-issue, but any example of hypocrisy is like a drop of blood in a shark tank.