In a 2007 interview with Spanish-language tech blog Todas, Richard Stallman said:
Where men exclude women, women are justified in resisting the exclusion. I will try to help, if it happens in a place where I have some influence, and I see the details of how it occurs.
Great! Perhaps he could start with acknowledging the female contributors to GCC, who he’s never noticed before, according to the same interview:
I don’t have any experience working with women in programming projects; I don’t think that any volunteered to work on Emacs or GCC.
Then he could move on to the ongoing problem of dismissive, exclusionary, or humiliating treatment of women by presenters at technical conferences.
Oh wait, he’s already on that case. Never mind.