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Reality denial and picking on people who state simple truth is evil.

planb 1y ago
Yes - people in HR departments are often female and often clueless, but I don't see the parent denying this. The wording of OP connected both though, which is sexist and can be considered "evil".
- Levitz 1y ago
  Funny enough, I see this whole framing as sexist itself. Nobody would have bat an eye if he said "clueless guys" or "clueless gents", and given the prevalence of women in HR, that wording would actually have more chances of having a sexist background to it.
  - planb 1y ago
    You‘re right, but that just reflects the structural sexism in our society while the wording by the op was intentional (I suppose. If not, I might as well be more sexist then he is).
  - LeafItAlone 1y ago
    “guys” is gendered but is very often used to mean a general group. >given the prevalence of women in HR, that wording would actually have more chances of having a sexist background to it. The reason there are more women than men in HR is clearly because the men they do hire are too clueless and get fired faster. Ever have an HR department with all men? Most dysfunctional department I’ve ever interacted with! “Clueless HR men” is just redundant. The ~25% that exist are DEI hires. So it wouldn’t be sexism, it would be reality.
LeafItAlone 1y ago
~80% of software developers are male. [1] I’m not sure the percentage of companies that use software for highlighting candidates, but Anthropic almost certainly does and this [2] source says 75+% do. So since men wrote the software that didn’t highlight the candidate, is it the clueless men that caused this? [1] https://www.zippia.com/software-developer-jobs/demographics/ https://www.zippia.com/software-developer-jobs/demographics/ [2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-software-rejecting-viable-candidates-harvard-business-school https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-...

Yes - people in HR departments are often female and often clueless, but I don't see the parent denying this. The wording of OP connected both though, which is sexist and can be considered "evil".

Levitz 1y ago
Funny enough, I see this whole framing as sexist itself. Nobody would have bat an eye if he said "clueless guys" or "clueless gents", and given the prevalence of women in HR, that wording would actually have more chances of having a sexist background to it.
- planb 1y ago
  You‘re right, but that just reflects the structural sexism in our society while the wording by the op was intentional (I suppose. If not, I might as well be more sexist then he is).
- LeafItAlone 1y ago
  “guys” is gendered but is very often used to mean a general group. >given the prevalence of women in HR, that wording would actually have more chances of having a sexist background to it. The reason there are more women than men in HR is clearly because the men they do hire are too clueless and get fired faster. Ever have an HR department with all men? Most dysfunctional department I’ve ever interacted with! “Clueless HR men” is just redundant. The ~25% that exist are DEI hires. So it wouldn’t be sexism, it would be reality.

LeafItAlone 1y ago

~80% of software developers are male. [1] I’m not sure the percentage of companies that use software for highlighting candidates, but Anthropic almost certainly does and this [2] source says 75+% do. So since men wrote the software that didn’t highlight the candidate, is it the clueless men that caused this? [1] https://www.zippia.com/software-developer-jobs/demographics/ https://www.zippia.com/software-developer-jobs/demographics/ [2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-software-rejecting-viable-candidates-harvard-business-school https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-...