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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by gnicholas on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @06:10PM (#15023177)
One interesting point that hasn't attracted much attention is that the author self-identifies as being on the autism spectrum [1]. If this fact were better-known, would accessibility advocates defend his memo — and possibly even attack its detractors for not being sensitive to his neurological differences?

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesDamore/comments/6thcy3/im_jame...

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @05:56AM (#15026228)
He uses high neuroticism as part of his argument against female software engineers, high neuroticism is associated with autism. So it seems that even he isn't being sensitive to his own neurological differences.
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by TearsInTheRain on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:11AM (#15026797)
> He uses high neuroticism as part of his argument against female software engineers

At no point did he argue "against female software engineers"

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:04AM (#15027107)
Apart from say the bit where he said women couldn't cope with stressful jobs as well as men and that's part of why they're underrepresented at Google i.e. the bit about neuroticism, that I was talking about.
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by 013a on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @06:22PM (#15023267)
Liberal ideology doesn't have a flowchart path for that one.
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