Google's "Anti-Diversity" Screed
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I still think some folks haven't actually read it.
This was interesting:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opi...sity-its-science/article35903359/?service=amp
I had not read the entire thing, got the jist and thought that enough but decided that was unfair so I read it this morning in full and my opinion has not changed.
no I didn't. I know enough guys like him that I predicted most of what he would say from the intro. Got to say though, I love his use of footnoting as if he is providing evidence and then the footnotes are actually just his explanations of the comment with nothing at all behind them.
One could say we know enough guys like you to know how you are going to react, and your rationale, for your conclusions.
At the end of the day, all it really means is "Well, that is, uh, just like your opinion, man."
Someone needs to post the obligatory picture of The Dude, as that is the predictable action of my MO.
At the end of the day, all it really means is "Well, that is, uh, just like your opinion, man."
Someone needs to post the obligatory picture of The Dude, as that is the predictable action of my MO.
My wife works in IT and my sister is a surgeon. Both fields are male dominated and I have heard both of them lament the disparate treatment they receive every day. After a while anyone that faces this kind of "you are out of your field/stay in your lane" treatment starts to look at lashing out at people that they feel hold them back and destroy them. Women are particularly good at destroying people.:biggrin:
If "Joe Google" had any intelligence about him, he would know that there would be severe backlash and that he would be eventually found out. So, I feel no sympathy for the fella and he got exactly what he SHOULD have expected from the beginning. I'm really thinking this was a publicity stunt on his part, or he's just an idiot. Not sure which one.
If "Joe Google" had any intelligence about him, he would know that there would be severe backlash and that he would be eventually found out. So, I feel no sympathy for the fella and he got exactly what he SHOULD have expected from the beginning. I'm really thinking this was a publicity stunt on his part, or he's just an idiot. Not sure which one.
One of my best friends is the first woman that was admitted to Princeton's Medical School.
She is part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Her hubby, also a doctor, is part of the vast left-wing kook conspiracy. Except that he is not a kook, and has grown weary of all the kooks.
Interesting couple. Way back when, someone thought it would be good for them to be introduced to each other. Seven weeks later, they were married. That was 40-some years ago.
They get along wonderfully, yet never agree on anything!
Other than voting is now a waste of time.
Getting old sucks, because everything you encounter is something you have encountered before, and you get tired of it.
(BTW, the hubby is a "head doctor". I won't bring up his views on "transgenders". You won't like it, and he probably doesn't want the grief of defending it.)
She is part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Her hubby, also a doctor, is part of the vast left-wing kook conspiracy. Except that he is not a kook, and has grown weary of all the kooks.
Interesting couple. Way back when, someone thought it would be good for them to be introduced to each other. Seven weeks later, they were married. That was 40-some years ago.
They get along wonderfully, yet never agree on anything!
Other than voting is now a waste of time.
Getting old sucks, because everything you encounter is something you have encountered before, and you get tired of it.
(BTW, the hubby is a "head doctor". I won't bring up his views on "transgenders". You won't like it, and he probably doesn't want the grief of defending it.)
Fair enough. We just comprehend it differently. Did either of you read the article I linked, by chance?
I'm not out to make champions or martyrs of people who circulate 10 page memos about their place of employment. But its interesting to me that this guy gets torched by the same crowd that lauds Colin Kaepernick. Supposedly, both were trying to "start a conversation" about something in society they believed was harmful. Of course, it jeopardized the employability for both, so I'd agree with those who have said it probably wasn't smart to speak up in the first place.
For the record, I don't have a daughter but if I did, she would be encouraged to pursue her interests without judgment either way, and expected to do her best in all subjects. If she ended up an engineer or a home maker, I'd be proud of her. I've got 2 sisters. My parents are very old fashioned. Neither sister was ever encouraged to "stay in her lane" or not to take STEM subjects. Maybe we were an exception to what has been the norm. I really don't know.
I didn't but I also skipped an article that posited the exact opposite that his claims were totally without scientific merit.
oddly for me I am not particularly interested in the Science of it as I know without question that men and women are different. He may even be largely right on the differences between men and women but it simply doesn't matter as they lead to universal generalizations that are harmful to the individual. Where does he even consider that the women that walk in the door at Google are not a reflection of all women at large (or all men for that matter)? He doesn't and that is a huge problem. He wants to say "women are this way" without noting that the women at Google or Silicon Valley differ from women as a whole. I know several googlers personally, men and women and "to a man" they are largely different that society as a whole. Just as Southerners are different from Americans and Americans are different from People as a whole. Sure most Americans are fat, lazy and stupid, look up the science of it, but that is hardly a reason to discount them as a whole group as he seems to want to with women.
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