You were right on calling him out with his opinion. But you make the same mistake: > But here's the thing: it's not mastermind feminists who are driving this.

You were right on calling him out with his opinion. But you make the same mistake: > But here's the thing: it's not mastermind feminists who are driving this. It's capitalism. "Have you conducted any kind of surveys or polls? Or are you just making up whatever fits your biases?" To be honest: It is probably a mix of the societal pressure from feminists, and you are right capitalism too. The hard thing is that this is not hard science, no one can know the real ratio of the two. For me it seems you're stating this like every societal changes root was better productivity ( communism, French revolution ? ). > The idea that women can thrive in law, medicine and hard sciences but they can't master CSS is laughable. I don't see women thrive in math, physics, engineering science, but I might be wrong. Biology is a good counter example though. To be honest I think it is perfectly possible that you are right in everything! But I'm also sure that there is no human being on this planet who could say that he understands this problem 100% while being fully rational, and not let the emotions punch trough here and there. The point of my comment is that: I see one side as "There might be other factors" and the other is "There are no other factors". The second one is a much harder statement.