Yeah. You know I just attended a thing with a man who got fired for saying gender differences exist and we were threatened with grenades, bricks, shitty diapers, someone ripped out the sound equipment coz they didn't want us to talk?
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Helen you know I adore you but Damore is suing for being discriminated against as a white conservatives man. That’s literally his lawsuit claim. California is an at will state and this cannot be ignored.
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OK. I haven't looked into the evidence for that. I just saw him being discriminated against for saying that gender differences exist. Do you think its a false claim?
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It’s been through the system and deemed rightful termination. As an insider in this industry, I can personally testify to cases that are way worse but we cannot do anything due to state laws.pic.twitter.com/mnp9Sd2PQI
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Replying to @Claire_Voltaire @HPluckrose and
I would personally say yes it is. I managed a small tech company and I’d hate to be in this situation and I would probably think this would be settled differently without the publicity. He shouldn’t be blacklisted but yeah he was rightfully terminated.
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Why?
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He created a hostile work environment. I believe this part of the memo is the part that was deemed most damaging: “women tend to be more social, more artistic, and more prone to neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance).” It’s not a scientific consensus and the 1/2
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Measured values in social studies is minuscule and insufficient to make that determination. For women already in the industry, that’s a pretty damning statement. 2/2
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It;s really not. See the overlapping populations graph. It shows those women. Loads and loads of them.
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Please link me because from what I saw, the difference was minuscule.
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Yes, that's what the graphs show. They look like this. He included one and one of two distinct populations which were just separate lines to show he was arguing for the former not the latter.pic.twitter.com/EEjGB5oqBI
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Claire_Voltaire and
This is what height looks like too. We are much more alike than different. Its not like all men are 7 foot and all women 4 foot. But if there is a six foot high door frame, most ppl banging their head on it will be men. Doesnt mean 6 foot women arent genuinely 6 foot.
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