Go forward in time to October 2014.
You can try to disguise it in any way you want, but at the end of the day what we have is a boys' club that suddenly cannot invest all of its money into toys for the boys' amusement but now also needs to spend it leveling the field for the girls to be able to play too. Less money for the toys the boys like, surely that upsets them -- after all, boys were having so much fun so far and now that fun is being taken away.
The fact that the fun in this case happens to be of a socially necessary technological nature (a free desktop, a free software stack, whatever you want to call it) doesn't make this any different. If you are objecting to OPW and your argument is that it hinders the technological advance of the GNOME project, well, admit it -- isn't the fact that you enjoy technology at heart (ie, you are the one having fun) one of the main reasons you're saying this?
Male-chauvinism can take a thousand forms, and many of those forms are so well hidden and ingrained into our culture that they are terribly difficult to see, specially if you're a man and not the target of it. Once we are confronted with any of these forms, this might even give us a terrible headache -- we are in front of something we didn't even know it existed -- and it can take a tremendous effort to accept they're here. But, frankly, that effort is long due and many of us will refuse to be around those not wanting to make it.
Go backwards in time to August 2014.