I work at a sexist finance company. Why I still work there:

Bang on. Incels repeat after me 10 times:

Do you at least understand how messed it up it is to deny women opportunities to work in gaming because of the emotional issues and frankly stupidity of some of the men who work in it (I refuse to believe all the men who work at Riot are this awful)?

They aren’t brutally straightforward. They make sexist assumptions and don’t have the self-awareness to realise it. For instance the stuff above indicates they think a male applicant has some sort of innate edge over a female one when it comes to equally qualified applicants.

I would need to hire some bodyguards for my own feelings of safety but there must be money in teaching incels how to cope with the presence of the billions of women on the planet. Their lives must be terrifying.

The problem with this is that starting your own company is difficult and takes money and it probably has a better chance of success if you do it when you are older and have some experience of what to do and what not to do.

Again there are billions of people on the planet and billions of women so maybe it does happen but as a woman, I’ve never ever ever had any woman come within 500 miles of randomly complimenting my breasts (maybe I just don’t have nice ones though, who knows :-p).

I think you just pitched a stellar idea for a season of The Good Place. Eleanor, Tahani, Chidi and Jason go to work in gaming hell!

We were also alone in our bedrooms, playing Doom, listening to Eminem and praying for the day when we could leave school.

Do you understand your own bias in thinking that women can’t be leaders? ;-) Not all women are soft, fuzzy and maternal.

“If people know Riot is looking for a specific type, then why apply if you have a problem with that?”

Representation is important because people tend to hire in their own image and like people who remind them of themselves. That’s why these men kept screening out women. That was sexist too by the way but no-one has complained about that because it’s so normalised.

It’s incredibly relateable to me as well. I work with predominantly men. I have enough a track record that they headhunted me to go back when I got pissed off and left last time. I did go back because they offered me more money and made certain promises that haven’t all been kept (training & development related).…

“Finally almost all girls I know are cruel and vindictive”

“If you truly want to be successful and happy in life, get a therapist and learn coping and critical thinking skills.

“But in the end, accusation without proof is the same as one of those false rape claims. The accused suffers thanks to a lie from accuser. And in many cases, which proved to be false accusations, the “rapist” ended up serving unjust time, ended up having his life destroyed and the “victim”, who lied in front of…

In a set that includes billions of people there’s going to be significant variation in what women and men want and can do. Making assumptions and generalisations about a group that includes billions is dumb. And actually some studies have shown women are safer drivers than men.

Somewhere like that might moderate but I’m guessing the bosses still make a load of harmful and sexist assumptions without even noticing it (women are worse at x, women really want babies etc etc).

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As a woman who works in finance (also male dominated) the problem with what you say is that in some areas every company is going to have “traditional values”* to one extent or another.