The _very first sentence_ is a misrepresentation of Damore's memo.
"Why aren’t there more female software developers in Silicon Valley? James Damore, the Google engineer fired for criticizing the company's diversity program, believes that it’s all about “innate dispositional differences” that leave women trailing men."
"Innate dispositional differences" is a _quote_ from a paper he cites, Why Can’t a Man Be More Like a Woman? Sex Differences in Big Five
Personality Traits Across 55 Cultures, a 2008 paper from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Damore introduces the quote with the phrase "research suggests."
The computing revolution is dominated by men because men have no problem at all spending thousands of hours tinkering with something just for its own sake. The real world confirms this.
> I'm simply supposing that he tried out the same argument in an informal context first, and that's what he's complaining about here.
Right, so you made that up. You're objecting strongly to something you THINK he MAY have done. Maybe.
> [1] Yes, it was. Don't pretend that it wasn't.
His thesis speaks for itself. Your objection to it is really your objection to what you THINK he means, instead of what he said. I think you may have just proved a few of his points.
Not bland if it offended him enough to prompt his memo.
> The tell here is "you can't say that" with no antecedent for "that". Yeah: if you tell your diversity class that women aren't cut out for work at Google, you're going to cause a fight.
There is no evidence at all that he said anything like that during a diversity class. The only evidence we have is his memo. Which doesn't say women aren't cut out for work at Google. Thanks for playing.
> It's unclear what exactly you're agreeing is "true".
Everything he said.
> If you're agreeing with the "incorrect to conflate", then it is true that it would be incorrect, but not true that this needs to be pointed out.
I was agreeing with his sentiment and you're being a pedantic dick.
> With only a little bit of investigation, or even participation, it quickly becomes entirely clear that compos divide entries by hardware, and people in the demoscene don't ask oldschool 64ks to measure up to PC 64ks.
Really? Gosh, I'd never have guessed. I mean, it's not like I ran the demoscene in my own country for 12 years or was doing my own prods since the late 90s or anything.
Quite true. I personally don't have a problem that PC 64k intros today will leverage the GPU as much as possible, with all the help from the driver code that that implies. It's how they stay current and awesome. Of course anyone writing a 64k intro with no help at all from the GPU except perhaps context creation and teardown is just giving themselves more creative limitations that I would respect.
Claudius's confession of murder in Hamlet comes right after Hamlet has put on a play to prick his conscience. This girl's confession comes right after her friend reads Claudius's prayer.
Quite extraordinary that after centuries, Shakespeare's words could still prick consciences in almost exactly the same way and for the same reasons.
> I am privileged in that I understand machines, art, language, and education. Those privileges have directly and indirectly resulted in almost every success I've ever had. I am a white professional man.
That's amazing. You understand machines, art, language and education and no work was required to gain this understanding? It was just given to you? Or was there a few thousand hours of study and practice involved? Some stability in the home life? Encouragement from parents? All of the above?
> Now you know one. And you probably know many others, if you'd come at this discussion from a position of understanding rather than from a position of defiance.
My defiance is because the author has quoted only feminists and cucked men. It's biased and needs to be called out.
> What would someone who doesn't even seem to understand the concept of cultural privilege have to add to a discussion about cultural privilege?
I am well aware of the cultural superiority of western civilization. Nothing else even comes close. But I'm certainly not going to be guilt-tripped about it by some Rothschild publication.
> Because men – and especially white, professional men – occupy a uniquely privileged place in society,
I don't know any white, professional men who got where they are because of privilege. It was all effort over many years together with sensible decision-making like finishing school, getting a job, not having kids out of wedlock, turning up to work on time, working hard, being honest and so on.
> Feminists have long argued that men see little need to help out more at home because they already enjoy all the benefits of marriage and fatherhood without having to put in the extra work.
What would feminists know about a non-feminist man's perspective on marriage and fatherhood? Non-feminist men also note that women aren't pushing for equality in physically demanding jobs on oil rigs, welding, construction and coal mining - because equality in the workplace is only for office jobs I guess.
> Their status as men is at once so valuable and so precarious that it must be won over and over again.
This is not a bad thing. The man guarding his village's perimeter from bandits can't fuck up or it costs people their lives.
> “Many professional workplaces involve a constant negotiation among men to establish a pecking order,” says Joan Williams, a feminist legal scholar
Yet another feminist quote. Why not ask some non-feminists for their opinions? This pecking order thing is entirely natural among men. Always has been, always will be.
"Why aren’t there more female software developers in Silicon Valley? James Damore, the Google engineer fired for criticizing the company's diversity program, believes that it’s all about “innate dispositional differences” that leave women trailing men."
"Innate dispositional differences" is a _quote_ from a paper he cites, Why Can’t a Man Be More Like a Woman? Sex Differences in Big Five Personality Traits Across 55 Cultures, a 2008 paper from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Damore introduces the quote with the phrase "research suggests."
The computing revolution is dominated by men because men have no problem at all spending thousands of hours tinkering with something just for its own sake. The real world confirms this.