Er, not Purdom. Think you mean Damore.

You continue to prove that you haven’t read the memo, because that is all addressed in it. And also the hyperlinks aren’t all footnotes: https://firedfortruth.com/

The thing to remember is also the real reason why Damore incurred such scorn. To a certain and ever-growing segment of the population, Silicon Valley NEEDS to be a sexist villain, because these people need a crusade, need a villain to define themselves against. As the saying goes, an identity defined in terms of…

Wow. Now, that actually IS a collection of bald-ass assertions. Well, not “bald” per se. He spends a lot of words to say very little.

The memo is littered with citations. Gizmodo did not carry the hyperlinks over in their initial hit piece, but since then the actual original memo with them intact has been preserved and shared. Not hard to find. I’ve linked it in a so-far-still-pending-for-reasons-we-won’t-even-try-to-pretend-we-don’t-know post in…

And while I didn’t touch on it at all, Damore also wrote at length about the lack of ideological diversity at Google, and the need to de-couple “diversity” from morality. His points there have been proven beyond his wildest dreams.

“Edgelord,” cripes. Purdom is sort of sideways-right here, in that it’s not just KKK members who have certain fantasy terms— in this case, it’s ones they chant to wish away the Bad Thoughts.

Some select quotations from the “anti-diversity” “pro-misogyny” memo, which argued that “women were biologically incapable of doing the heavy rational work of being tech employees, thus justifying the massive hiring biases that’ve made Silicon Valley a bastion of institutional machismo.”:

If by “assertions” you mean “research,” then you’re close to being correct.

Again, people should read this:

Nope, you really didn’t. Please stop lying.

If anyone is actually interested in the background behind Damore’s claims, the underlying reasons behind why women are underrepresented in Silicon Valley and STEM, and the toxic backlash to this whole thing, this should really be your one-stop shop:

Also, this passage:

“The A.V. Club, a popular culture publication, can enthusiastically rebut his argument: While people are very fucking into wizards and dragons, they avail themselves of many non-racist avenues for exploring them, including the most popular show on television, the most popular books of the…

The memo was very explicitly NOT “anti-diversity” and a lot of the other things described here. Either Purdom did not read the memo and is relying on secondhand descriptions of it, or he is outright lying. Either way this article is a disgrace.

Barb is also a mean subversion on the stereotypical horror movie “punishment” death: she’s responsible and chaste, but still gets terribly killed. Meanwhile her friend is upstairs having sex and lives through not just the night but the entire ensuing ordeal.

“if any women want to come forward and say what he’s done, I’ll totally back them, because I believe women”

We must not let The Unclean One touch our precious blurbs!

Honestly? Slight spoiler here, but......

“Who gives a shit about telling a story about now?” Stephen King sure did, because he told a story about “now” when he wrote It.

[opens the article and skims over it quickly]

When the book was written, the late 80s was “now,” making the 1950s be “back when we were kids.” Ignoring that fact for a modern-day adaptation would be just slavish fidelity to the book’s setting for fidelity’s sake.