Next time some man says “maybe women are’t as good as men in tech as men are” just be like, “they’re probably still smart enough to do your job.”
ha I’m totally stealing this but you might want to fix up the first sentence ❤
Also I think the biggest problem with firing to address these #forbiddenthoughts is these thoughts are very widespread and increasingly loud. There are probably thousands of young (libertarian) engineers at Google who think stuff like this. Declaring this stuff unfit for discussion might work if the opinion was held by a handful but when these thoughts are bubbling away and becoming more and more widespread it’s going to be counterproductive. I understand why Google needed to do what they did but I wish that we as the mainstream culture had a better way to deal with this without playing into the alt-right persecution fantasy complex.
