Sexism and apologies

Back here I promised a link to the Hidden in plain view post on a culture of sexism in FLOSS (Free-Libre Open Source Software) - so there it is, and here's Matt Zimmermann on the same subject with lots of comments! While you're there go and read his post on proper apologies vs the "I'm sorry if" "I'm sorry but" and "I'm sorry that you" evasions beloved of all of us at one time or the other.