OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd

I'd argue that it's worse than that. Perhaps only 10-20% of the community engage in outright sexism. But, looking at the comments to most discussions of this nature, significantly more than that appear to expend time and effort arguing that it's not a real problem and that women should just get a thicker skin if they're going to get involved. If we define "the problem" as "involvement in the Linux community is unattractive to women", then those people are part of the problem just as much as the ones who engage in sexual harassment and threats. And it's those people who have to have their minds changed, because dealing with the poisonous minority is almost impossible unless you have the majority clearly on your side.