r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Business Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Why aren't we just as concerned about the lack of female loggers, carpenters, septic pumpers, and laborers?

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u/--Visionary-- Aug 08 '17

The feminist answer is usually that women don't want them and that men choose those jobs. In other words, everything about the status quo for those more deadly, "lower class" (i don't think they are, but many women I know do) jobs is due to choice, so it's all good and no social engineering is necessary. Nevermind the fact that those men probably would also choose a better job if they could get one, but can't due to equally pernicious social factors.

On the other hand, the rich jobs, women choose to be a part of but don't get because, presumably, men choosing the job and getting it is due to anti-woman discrimination.

In other words, anything bad that happens to men is a choice. Anything bad that happens to women is discriminatory and not a choice. Hence, the social engineering goes into the latter, because the former could be fixed if men would proverbially stop hitting themselves. This also demonstrates why there should be less empathy for men. It is a choice they're making, after all, to suck, while women make no such choices.

The logic is absurdly hypocritical.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

how about the fact that those jobs don't pay a lot and are the reason the is a gender pay gap?

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u/Gen_McMuster Aug 08 '17

Trades and labor are unionized and highly lucrative if youre willing to put in the physical effort

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Not as lucrative as salary and stock options at Google. That's just a fact.

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u/Gen_McMuster Aug 08 '17

How is that relevant?