@feld But there aren't any more women in the BSD community than the rest of the IT sector either, are there?

I don't think the lack of women in IT can be attributed to any one cause, and I think the reasons go so deep that changes in IT communities themselves (rather than deeper changes in modern "western" culture) would only make a small difference. And that's in the ideal case, assuming those changes are actually executed well.

When it comes to recent trends like Codes of Conduct and Cancel Culture and all that jazz, I think the execution has been a complete catastrophe, and probably does a lot more harm than good where inclusion and diversity are concerned. I wrote about that here: https://blogs.feministwiki.org/taylan/2023/08/26/free-software-and-the-new-sexism/

Honestly, I was completely unsurprised to find out that Drew DeVault is into virtual child pornography. It's a perfect fit, in terms of the ideological background and the culture of cancel culture aficionados within nerdy spaces. It seems to be a culture overrun by men obsessed with sexuality and fetishes, and their "queer politics" has historic ties with pro-pedophilia philosophy, like when Michel Foucault (considered the "father of queer theory") campaigned for the complete abolition of age of consent laws in France in the 70s.

They love disregarding taboos and normalizing things that would previously be considered sexually deviant. (Furries, BDSM, ABDL, and so on, which they all liken to homosexuality, which is absurd because being gay is not a fetish. The way they think is actually homophobic in that sense.) Ironically, Stallman's "offensive" views seem based on the same mentality as well: "All the sexual taboos are just due to narrow-mindedness." But when it's an Old White Man who's saying it, they suddenly make a 180 and become puritans. I think they really just want to bring down "authority figures" for the sake of bringing down authority figures. Gives them a kick or something.