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That is exactly the tweet I had in mind. Does it not seem reasonable to you for someone not to want to work on a team where their coworkers think they're less biologically suited to the work, and to hope that HR agrees that they shouldn't be expected to work with such coworkers?



You're correct. However, the author of that tweet went around the wrong way with the manner of her expression.

The tweets she put out today come off as combative and hammy.

>It actually gives me motivation to leave Google for the first time in years; the only reason why I enjoy Google is our unified networking.

>Fact: White men are not marginalized like me in tech. White man: You are racist, my grandpa was a great man. You are this relevant.

>Dear white men who thinks they are marginalized, my single eye lash is more marginalized in tech than all of you.

There are proper ways to voice one's concern, but violence against others is not one of them.


> went around the wrong way with the manner of her expression

So it's only ok for women to be frustrated by systemic stereotyping and marginalization, if-and-only-if she acts like a traditionally oppressed woman in public? Women should just stay in the closet instead of pointing out porblems in the workplace?

> violence against others is not one of them.

What "violence"? What kind of framing or mental gymnastics are you using to interpret any of those posts as "combative" or interpreted as "violence against others"?


>What "violence"? What kind of framing or mental gymnastics are you using to interpret any of those posts as "combative" or interpreted as "violence against others"?

The same violence you are imposing upon on me with your words. Albeit these are in the realm of microagressions, it is violence nonetheless. A more modern violence.

Throwing pejoratives at people is verbal violence: What kind of framing or mental gymnastics...

As is responding with loaded questions, like: Women should just stay in the closet instead of pointing out problems in the workplace? This is intellectually dishonest and does more to insight altercation than have an informed and open discussion.

Coincidentally, these are not too far off from the author's comments.




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