1) The study shows that being male is being treated as evidence of being a good applicant. Regardless of the virtues of doing so, it's not the same as hating women, nor as "apologetics of abusing females", which is how the second respondent defined it.

2) I was, perhaps unclearly, referring to their examples. The purpose of these threads isn't (as far as I was aware) for LW women to bring up articles from the literature, it was to share our experiences. I was pointing out that these respondents had perhaps mis-characterised their experiences.