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Their steps toward their vision of gender equality make it even more difficult for men who didn't attend a prestigious university to be accepted.
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At least one moderator here (with the username "dang") has blocked discussion of the fact that white men are actually underrepresented in tech. For example, take a look at this thread from about three months ago: https:/
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> On top of that, if you ever tried to submit that "evidence" in defense of a rape accusation, you'd still go to jail for that crime, so your so-called motivation doesn't hold water. Yes, you would go to jail for re
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It gets worse. > I’m not wild about the precedent that [suing for libel] sets for other women to come forward in cases of actual sexual assault. Very, very, very few men have the wealth, fame, connections, and social media presence tha
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> Are you trying to say that you have felt threatened, unsafe or like you were going to be alienated because you had to friendzone a female? Because I can't say that I have. And I honestly have a hard time believing that you have ei
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> But the only other interpretation I can think of is that you think men are at a disadvantage to women, which is a laughable assertion. For men and women born since the mid-1980s, absolutely. And crime, education, and income statistics
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77.8%. In the United States, 77.8% of homicide victims are male. But no, Sean is having a public anxiety attack because a company chose a photograph of two actual attendees in a photo booth who chose chose to dress slightly more provocati
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Should women avoid dressing provocatively in public, lest they portray themselves (and thus other women) as non-human beings?
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The #YesAllWomen campaign opened my eyes, too. When three men and three women are murdered, we focus completely on the women. When men are overwhelmingly disproportionately the victim of homicides, violent crime (including violent crime
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> By interpreting this purely as an attack on white males ONLY Come on, man! He's not doing that! He was responding to this claim you made just two posts above: > I don't think anyone is saying that white men are a "pro
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> How you can read the original article as an attack on white people is astonishing. He probably had that reaction because that's almost always the undertone in American discussions about diversity. It's never actually about re
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And here's an interesting demographics map of the Bay Area from 2010: http://minus.com/i/bgqCzuSwvcAi1 I wonder the extent to which Googlers' lives at work are affected by Google's new-found focus on div
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> But I suspect that even if you remove the white Jewish cohort from the white group then whites (and especially white males) would still be overrepresented amongst founders. If the demographic data for founders looks anything like the d
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You're focusing on hiring discrimination, but the article's focusing on spending money to increase "upstream" tech interest in under-represented groups. That's because hiring discrimination isn't really the iss
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> What does white-guilt mean, exactly? Many White people are socially conditioned from a young age to reflexively feel guilt and disgust toward the success of White people. > I believe that economic gains made by whites at the expense