Yikes. It sounds like you have a lot of personal issues to work out. I can assure you that is not every woman’s experience. If your parents encouraged you to not follow your dreams, I’m really sorry about that, but that isn’t society’s fault. If your teachers, parents, and SO advised you as a teen to “do something…

Sigh. That is not what he said. He did not say that women are less suited for certain professions. He’s talking about innate preference. If you have already decided to hate the guy because he’s a white guy, that’s fine, but at least be honest about your own bias. I imagine right now you are appalled - “I’m not…

Right. No one can disagree that there are differences. Do they play a role in perceived inequality? We might never know because we aren’t allowed to discuss that.

Yes that’s clear to me now lol.

Thank you for this. I’ve received a lot of replies to my comment, and they pretty much all boil down to “his point is invalid” or “we’ve already discussed this enough”, as if there was some big meeting that I apparently wasn’t invited to, where some panel made these determinations. When people refer to the “thought…

Not around here they can’t.

No, I just didn’t see value in debating that point, so I glossed over it in pseudo agreement to get to the meat of the argument.

I would disagree that that’s what he’s doing here - he seems well-intentioned. Your garden variety racist or sexist might sound similar, but ultimately their suggestions and goals are radically different. His goal isn’t to allow rampant sexism, for example - he in fact acknowledges the existence of sexism - but…

I disagree that every single one of his arguments has been debunked. In some cases, this mentality could be encroaching on a proof by assertion.

Thank you - this is the first honest criticism I’ve seen.

Thank you for providing an example of the kind of dismissive tactics that I am referring to.

His argument isn’t that this discrimination is in some way harming straight white guys on some large scale, but rather that it’s divisive. That you can’t solve discrimination with more discrimination. He proposes inclusive solutions. It’s funny to me that those who supposedly oppose discrimination laugh at the idea…

Where did he argue that women were not as capable as men? I am honestly asking, because I did not read that. What I am finding is that many people are reading between the lines and finding arguments he isn’t making. Even if you want to disqualify his arguments involving differences between men and women for debate…

LOL thanks - I’m loving the intellectual honesty here in the comments today.

Yeah, I just tend to not really respect people or ideologies who respond by asserting that opposing arguments aren’t worth being debated for one reason or another. Any position worth supporting can be sufficiently defended. If your response to thoughtful opposition is to disqualify it for debate, there’s a good…

But his thoughts extended beyond that. He agrees with equality, agrees sexism exists, but disagrees with how Google approaches those issues. Is it wrong to share those ideas? I see people routinely share ideas that are on the other end of the political spectrum than you probably think he is on, and society accepts…

Did.. you read it?

That’s not what he said. One of his positions was that men and women might be innately drawn to different fields. There is no debate that men and women are different. The thought that that wouldn’t extend to other life choices doesn’t make sense to me (or the author). That concept, as well as the idea that women…

I think that’s taking his arguments to some bizarre extreme. At its core, the writer is calling out what he feels to be oppressive and discriminatory practices at Google, as well as unsustainable and ineffective methods for combating sexism and inequality. He does not disagree with the fundamental idea of equality,…

If that is true - that the writer’s argument is rooted in junk or misunderstood science - then the correct response is to refute it. Silencing him only confirms to subscribers of his ideology that they are correct. The mark of an honest ideology is its subscribers’ ability to defend it intellectually, not by…