Comment by theorique

If I understand the outcry, it's something like this:

- programming is a male-dominated field

- that's not a good thing - we need more women because of some reasons

- to get more women, we need to show women that they are welcome

- a package name like "bro" references male things, and possibly even unfortunate stereotypes like "brogrammers"

- this is a bad thing

- therefore, we shouldn't call it "bro" because women in CS and programming will think of brogrammers and other male stereotypes in programming and feel unwelcome

Frankly, this sounds like quite a stretch to me too, but it's my best guess about what the problem is.

I think there are definitely package names that one could imagine that were sexist and truly inappropriate. This isn't one of them.