This is so balanced and sane. We need more of you on the internet. What I find to be the most odd about any woman that thinks James firing is a good thing is, men have been doing this to other men since the dawn of time. Men have bitten, killed other men to get women or to protect women. I don’t know what counts as gender stereotyping if not that. Ladies, If you think this was done for you, more fool you.

If ever there was a patriarchy, this would be how it operated. Hefting big sticks over smaller men to maintain their own power and throw a few bones to the already lauding women who think they have found a new hero. That Zunger character is one such man. There are many more in this thread who seem to be preening to hang Damore at the gallows than women. If you think they are doing it for you, you are mistaken.

If you want to prove it, why not lead a women’s march to the gates of Google’s headquarters demanding its male CEO and board members step down immediately and put a woman… any woman in his place and see which reasonings both biological or not he attempts to use to prove that he deserves more than anyone else to be CEO. Go check out how someone who asked about the make up of Apple’s board was shut down not too long ago.

How else do I say this. Minorities in tech (If there is anything like that at all) the people who are showing you the most equality are those who openly show their hatred for you or their fear of you (white supremacists in what little numbers they are). They respect you enough to show their contempt for you in public and in your face so you can face them headlong with your own reasoning, abilities and logic and put them to shame.

Those you should be afraid of are those who don’t think you are worth showing up to the battle for. Those who throw you a bone now and then to shut you up, those who claim to be all about inclusivity but whose numbers remain exactly the same in the places of power where it matter ( the exact reason I don’t believe in diversity or inclusivity by the way), those who will fire the little James Damores of this world to keep you cheering as they get richer, get their next round of funding and you stay poor, the Hillaries who demand that you stand with her but didn’t give you a dollar when she only had a dollar to give but wants you to believe she will give you millions if you just make her president?

Don’t be happy this happened to him. He was a disposable chess piece all along like many men. Instead find out those who are the indisposable chess pieces. Those are your real enemies.