Unfortunately, as someone with a wife who works as a software engineer, it is rather unsurprising to me.

Male is the default gender and anything that goes against the defaults of society triggers people. That's it.

People don't notice the word "man" getting shoved everywhere but if you dare to replace it they definitely take notice. Sociological Images did an interesting collection of these defaults

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/05/04/default-ava...

It’s sad that text got flagged. Which proved a point.

I voted up. Words and behavior matter.

If your identity is so hung up on being a man and believing that men are “better” than women, your identity is a frail illusion.

Try to imagine being so “weak” that you can’t accept that there are women who are successful and some do better than you.

Techies are sexiest.