Those men decided, in screening about 1,200 men and 200 women, that good programmers don’t like people — that they have a complete disinterest in people.
These tests were widely influential and used at various companies for decades.What happens with that is that if you search for antisocial people, you will hire far more men than women. There’s no evidence to suggest that antisocial men are better at computers than women. But that stereotype has perpetuated to this day.
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As a journalist, I’ve definitely found myself in situations that have made me feel uncomfortable. But I’m sure it doesn’t compare to what the women in tech face every single day because they’re simply so outnumbered. I talked to women engineers at Uber who were getting invited to strip clubs and bondage clubs in the middle of the day. The middle of the day! And often they would go because that’s just what everyone was doing. It’s what you needed to do to fit in and be cool.
Can any sane mind claim our social development is even remotely keeping pace with our technology? Could it not be easily and plausibly claimed that the entire ruse of “Progressivism” is simply intended to distract the world from the true “Progress”–that of corruption and moral malaise, understood as a separation from authentic emotion and sense of self–present everywhere in the very places proclaiming themselves most advanced?
Why are we being lectured by amoral fiends? Why does anyone listen?
I watched the movie “The Internship”. As always, I found Vince Vaughn very funny. But it seemed obvious that the movie had the approval of Google, and yet they went to a strip club. Maybe, the intent was simply to portray that world accurately.
Public piety, private license. It has long been easy enough to criticize religious hypocrites. But are the hypocrites of the Left any different? Is it anything but one more fucked up Church? I don’t see it.