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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by Dylan16807 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:14AM (#14955243)
> it's really hard to say one sex is more privileged than the other, rather than just privileged differently

I don't think it's that hard. There are unfair privileges to either gender, but the male ones are vastly larger.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by tomp on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:58AM (#14955514)
> but the male ones are vastly larger

This kind of claim (regardless of which direction you're making the claim in) ony makes sense if you reduce "privilege" into a single dimension. Which I don't think you can.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by Dylan16807 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:36PM (#14961044)
No it doesn't. 500-dimensional vectors have lengths.
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