I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a guy who takes such obvious pride in carrying water for his corporate overlords wouldn’t also take pride in carrying water for his sexual overlords. Nice mansplain bro, and a textbook example of white knighting.
I mean, you spend the first half of your essay establishing your middle management authoritahhh, your engineering foo, and the google insider bona fides that you’re obviously still proud of, so that the thinly-veiled, violent, revenge fantasy that follows seems well earned?
Why suggest punching him in the face? Why is your vision of firing the guy recounted in such exquisite detail if not as a vengeance fantasy? So empathetic. So logical. So liberal.
As for the original essay. I read it not as a reaction to the appropriateness of women in the workplace, but as a reaction to feminist ideology in the work place being imposed (and imposed badly) from above, which are 2 distinctly separate things.
Your argument, as most feminist arguments do, deliberately and dishonestly conflates the two. The author of the memo on the other hand, seems to understand that “feminist” isn’t synonymous with “female worker”, and that while some women are certainly suited to the thankless grind of corporate tech work, many others just like you and me, would rather be doing something more meaningful. Unlike you and me however, they have the biological means to create a better, more fulfilling job for themselves built right in. Why shouldn’t they follow their desires?
But hey, personally I can’t stand most women, so I find it hilarious when they allow themselves to be made fools of by corporations that insists that childlessly slogging away at a job they don’t find fulfilling is empowering. Unlike the memo’s author, I don’t want feminists to shut up on that front, so at least you and I agree on something.
I, like you, would like to quit my lousy corporate job to follow my dumb dreams. Now if only I can trick my wife into supporting me. Thankfully Google, feminism, and the entire MSM are here to convince her to get her ass to the software mines and “empower” herself.