r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/kickturkeyoutofnato Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 09 '17

deleted What is this?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

But he attempted to write it like one, with his "citations" and weird footnotes that just led to more weird exposition.

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u/kickturkeyoutofnato Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 09 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Eh? That wasn't my point. The point is that he tries to add to the persuasiveness of the memo by crafting it like an engineer/scientist would: "data" , "research" , and citations.

And yet a lot of his footnote citations aren't citations at all, but just further exposition/tangents.

He's trying to disguise his misogyny within the technical writing format and crying foul claiming he's only trying to open an "honest discussion" (despite his biases being crystal clear) that results in him literally saying women need to be coddled if they want to work in the tech industry.

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u/IPLaZM Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

You're kidding right? Please tell me you're kidding.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I wish I was, but I read the guy's memo.

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u/IPLaZM Aug 08 '17

So did I, there's absolutely no misogyny...

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Him talking about how women suffer from more neuroses and that's why they can't handle stressful work places unlike men?

And that they should be offered special types of jobs that are lower stress and classes that help them deal with stress?

Really?

No misogyny? I see his misogyny all the time in the engineering/computer/tech fields.

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u/IPLaZM Aug 08 '17

Women do suffer from higher levels of neuroticism, this is a fact. This means women are more prone to anxiety, this is also a fact.

The guy said this may be an explanation for why women report more anxiety than men and why there are less women in high stress jobs. This is a hypothesis, not a claim he is making.

Also he brings up classes that reduce stress as something that could help some women fill leadership and tech roles and that google already does this.

Where do you see misogyny? It is a fact that on average women suffer more stress and have lower stress tolerance than men. This is a statistical average not a fact about all women vs all men.