The most disturbing thing about the way I have seen this reported is as some war between feminists and software engineers. This seems to be a popular narrative on the non-tech blogs.
In other words attributing all of the threats, DDOS etc to the sort of people who go to pycon.
So that means there are two possibilities.
1) It is common for the sort of people who attend pycon and write relatively sensible posts on HN also engage in this sort of behaviour. I hope this is not true, and mostly doubt it but if it is then this is something deeply disturbing.
2) We are letting the sort of people who frequent 4chan and "men's rights" blogs act as representatives of the software community.
In other words attributing all of the threats, DDOS etc to the sort of people who go to pycon.
So that means there are two possibilities.
1) It is common for the sort of people who attend pycon and write relatively sensible posts on HN also engage in this sort of behaviour. I hope this is not true, and mostly doubt it but if it is then this is something deeply disturbing.
2) We are letting the sort of people who frequent 4chan and "men's rights" blogs act as representatives of the software community.