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posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 11 2018, @11:11PM   Printer-friendly
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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Over the last several months, I’ve witnessed many controversial discussions among my friends, in my San Francisco community, and on online forums about James Demore’s memorandum. People of both genders are wrestling with the fact that fewer women go into computer science and trying to find explanations that balance their experience, empathy, and ethical aspirations. I’ve heard lots of good-intentioned people consider discouraging theories of biological superiority because they can’t find any other compelling explanation (like this post on HackerNews, for example). As a woman who studied computer science, worked at some of the top tech firms, and has founded a software startup, I’d like to share my take on why fewer women go into CS and my opinion on how to address the issue.

[...] I graduated from Stanford with a BS in Mathematical & Computational Sciences in 2015, interned at Apple as a software engineer, and worked as an Associate Product Manager at Google 2015-2017. In October, I founded a video editing website called Kapwing and am working on the startup full-time. Although I’m only 25, I’ve already seen many of my female friends choose majors/careers outside of STEM and have been inside of many predominately-male classes, organizations, and teams.

This article is one person’s humble perspective, and I do not speak for every woman in tech. But hopefully having the view of someone who has “been there” can help people trying to understand why there are fewer women in tech.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Sulla on Saturday May 12 2018, @03:25AM (3 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Saturday May 12 2018, @03:25AM (#678686) Journal

    Where you are wrong is that incels just want to be left alone to hate women for what they are, rather than expect women to fit their needs. /r9k/ doesnt have a thread an hour about sexbots because they want to deal with real women.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @11:36AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @11:36AM (#678776)

    Left alone. Like the one who mowed down peeps over it in Canada?

    He merely changed them into corpses.

    And the hate they have isn't solitary. They project it every chance they get. But creating negative emotions in women isn't changing them.

    Spoken like any other manipulator.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by unauthorized on Sunday May 13 2018, @12:14AM

      by unauthorized (3776) on Sunday May 13 2018, @12:14AM (#678995)

      Riight, and feminists want equality like Valerie Solanas. Because it makes PERFECT SENSE to judge a group of people based on the worst examples you can scrounge from the depths of the Internet.

      Spoken like any other manipulator.

      Yes you have. Not a very good one.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:22PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:22PM (#678879) Journal

    Sulla, have you ever spent any time *reading* what the incels write?! No, they do NOT want to be "left alone," they want to make us suffer for daring not to provide them with on-demand access to our bodies and doing constant emotional labor for them. Some of them outright advocate for rape as a measure of control, or as some sort of general revenge against the entire female half of the human race. Then there's the ones who seriously suggest "redistribution of sex," as if sex were money, and with the closest thing to a straight face they own advocate for government intervention to force women to have sex with them.

    And not just any women. The ones they deem attractive, regardless of how fat or slovenly or stupid or evil or brutal they themselves might be. It all comes down to "sexual market value" (and they have some truly disgusting ideas about this, too). If someone suggested that all the women who can't get laid due to weight, hygiene, antisociality etc meet up with them and they all try and work something out, they'd rebel, because what this is really about is they think they're fucking entitled to some supermodel-whore-domestic-mother-wife amalgam simply for existing and being male.

    This is "aggrieved entitlement." Fuck that shit, fuck incels, fuck their sociopathic horseshit, and fuck anyone who doesn't call them out on it.

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