Great, balanced take.

I remember working in a physics lab as an undergraduate. A female grad student was sitting next to me. A male grad student walked by and pulled her spaghetti strap and snapped it on her back. She just gave him a nasty look, but later on I overheard her crying to someone on the phone. <-- This behavior shouldn't be tolerated and I'm glad when companies crack down on this.

On the other hand, in an effort to create "safe" environments the professional DEIsters lost all sight of perspective. It started to be that you can't even hypothesize about reasons for lack of women in tech... the only allowable explanation was sexism. Similarly for other preferred groups, namely BIPOC and LGBT.

I absolutely think this is all wound up with the social media age, which tends to reward the most outrageous takes, drowning out all the moderate voices.

The pushback is needed. But within the voices pushing back, I sometimes see cringey racist and sexist tropes again. We'll see if any of this leads to a healthier place.