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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:23PM (#15022755)
>both the left, the feminist movement, and the right fanned the flame against male teachers

I find it hard to believe that this would be generally true. Source?

Edit: obviously you're always going to have some twats doing things like that, but that's true for everything. I'm looking for evidence that it's more than average here.

Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us on Sunday August 13, 2017 @06:07PM (#15005217)
Almost half of Googlers are non-white, more so than the general population of the USA. How is Google lacking diversity?

(I know the answer, but that kind of blanket statements are ridiculous)

Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us on Sunday August 13, 2017 @06:00PM (#15005185)
Yes, most professors of the subject matter who have expressed their opinions agree: http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

The link you provided is no exception, as the writer is not a professor; while that's obviously an arbitrary distinction, I have to draw the line somewhere.

Also, it's incredibly you seem to equate the people supporting Damore with the person himself.

Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us on Sunday August 13, 2017 @04:19PM (#15004720)
The claims of sexism in this article are shaky, at best. A programmer created a memo about how the small proportion of women in programming is likely to be due to biology, Google fired them, and that's somewhow supposed to prove that there's a "toxic bro culture"? A memo, which most professors of the subject matter seem to mostly agree with... which makes its vilification questionable.