James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google

Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:05AM (#16104652)

You haven't been on the Internet in the past few years, have you? :). The fringe, while a small minority, has also been the loudest part of the feminist movement in this decade, and it's the impact of that fringe that can be seen responsible for such overreaction to Damore's memo.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by on_and_off on Friday January 12, 2018 @12:38AM (#16130639)

Well, most of Damore's memo is not that shocking indeed although :

- there are parts like this quote that made me go in one second from 'this is reasonable' to 'ok I see why he got fired'

- some parts are just stupid .. even though neuroticism is the right term and is not negative, it is had deep negative connotations for many people (not to mention that the big 5 is not exactly an uncontroversial model). Just don't use these words when arguing about a sensitive topic.

And yeah, there is a fringe of the feminist movement. Like all fringes, it is the loudest part of the movement. I think it is toxic to feminism (although that's just a feeling, hard to quantify the influence of such a fringe). I just try to ignore it, I don't really know how to argue with extremists tbh.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by pluto9 on Friday January 12, 2018 @05:28PM (#16136910)

What word should he have used? Negative connotations or not, "neuroticism" is the accepted term for the Big Five trait he was referring to. Should he have made up his own name for it?

If he had, internet armchair scientists would be ridiculing him for being so uninformed about the topic that he didn't know the proper terminology.

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