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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by alexashka on Sunday February 18, 2018 @05:34PM (#16409223)
The justice warrior echo chamber is strong...

It's hard to reply to justice warrior-talk without being incredibly condescending. Can you slow down for one minute and define what you mean by 'equality of all people'?

We have 2 genders, not 1, might be a good starting point.

Let's follow that up with how you know what all people want out of life, that you want them liberated from systems of whatever? Or you're interested in doing for people, what they don't want done to them? How does that work with liberating them from oppression exactly?

Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by door3 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @05:51PM (#16409310)
Well there’s more than 2 genders but that’s another issue. The point is we live in a male-dominated society where men have controlled a majority of political and economic power since this country’s inception. In terms of gender, here’s a few policy proposals:

-financial compensation for housework/child-rearing -reduced hours for the primary caregiver at the same level of salary after childbirth (usually the woman) -equal pay for women mandated by law (pass the ERA) -much stronger policies against sexual harassment -more women in positions of power -full subsidy for menstruation products & birth control -paid maternity leave for all workers -universal healthcare -comprehensive sex positive and consent focused sex education in public schools

I could go on, but the main point is men & male society control politics, science, the economy, etc, so the whole society is predominantly oriented around men. A lot of shifts are more cultural (like attitudes towards harassment and sexism) which is harder to make into concrete policy proposals.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by door3 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:27PM (#16410336)
If you think that neck width hair and eye color are traits which have as much historical social and political significance as gender we aren’t really having the same conversation.

Women should have money and power they shouldn’t have to marry into money and power. That point alone shows me we aren’t really having the same conversation, that your idea of a female power is “marrying a rich dude”