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It wasn't a mysoginist memo, don't be so low effort. He isn't a scientist but he actually bring up stuff that was already being discussed when I studied sociolo

• enumjorge 6y ago
  Toward the beginning of the memo, Damore lists personality differences, on average, between men and women. The third item is that women have more “ Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance)”. I don’t know Damore so I can’t tell you whether he is a mysoginist or not, but he certainly uses arguments and language that mysogonists do. This is just one example of problematic areas of his memo. I realize there’s more to his memo, but I wanted to bring up a concrete example. Here’s the thing. I get that our current research says men and women are in some ways different, and I don’t think stating that is controversial. But to use that as an argument for why some degree of inequality in the workplace is ok, just doesn’t pass muster. To your point, there’s a lot we still don’t understand about how our biology works, so if you’re going to use research as a reason to limit people, that’s a whole other bar to clear.
  • iagovar 6y ago
    Trying to explain inequality or arguing about the performance of current practices are by no mean justification of anything. Also, it's important to remember that he was fired. And this is central to the whole thing. IDK, that may be viewed differently from the US, but from my pov it's clear that he was persecuted because of ideological reasons, painting Google as a reactionary organization. And that's specially bad because Google is extremely powerful. Another stone in the bucket to mistrust Google.