Christ, none of the issue is with women using tools. It's everything but that. The blog post's focus is clearly that someone as apparently young and busy as this isn't merely a jack of all trades, but a master. Gender isn't what is making people stop and think here.
>I'm just going to tell you, OP, and everyone who agrees with you right now: fuck off.
This kind of debate shutdown is better suited to Facebook political groups, not HN.
Ever meet Jeri Ellsworth? She's usually in Silicon Valley and fairly visible. She can do both software and hardware. She made money selling a box with a joystick that connected to a TV and all the Commodore-64 games in it. She built race cars as a teenager. She's now working on augmented reality, while fooling around with ham radio.
Jeri is one of those rare people who thinks things through from first principles. She does mods few people would think to try - changing the frequencies of crystals through vapor deposition, spin-coating her own wafers, and converting a satellite receiver to a radar transmitter by reversing a transistor in the low-noise amp.
I have, along with several members of her entourage. She seemed like a genuinely nice and generous person (on top of being an extraordinarily talented and productive engineer), who has surrounded herself with other awesome people.
Her work is more geared towards education, and Naomi's is more geared toward entertainment. I think there's a place for both.
How is she a master? She looks like an amateur hobbyist, the main positive she has is that she looks fairly active and she's actually building stuff. Looking at her youtube I saw 3d printed bikini cups, what looked like her putting together some shelves and a skirt with lights under it. That's not masterful, but it does take a little dedication and maybe some nights or weekends.
>I'm just going to tell you, OP, and everyone who agrees with you right now: fuck off.
This kind of debate shutdown is better suited to Facebook political groups, not HN.