If you're someone of a less represented class, and you tend to refer your buddies from the same gender/race, you're going to get better bonuses than your overly represented peers. Does this constitute reverse discrimination?
Depends on who you ask. Some won't acknowledge that such a thing as "reverse racism" even exists. If you ask me, any sort of policy based on race is racist. Whether it's reverse, corrective, affirmative, or otherwise, is irrelevant. And that is a liberating definition without ifs, buts and grey areas.
Whenever I try to really understand that culture or their opponents (MRA, r/KotakuInAcion etc.) I just end up feeling like both their sides are completely worthless endless rabbit holes and time sinks. Perhaps I just need a minor in Gender Studies to understand.
I wish both sides could just cease to exist.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power [1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power
http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
It's possibly legal under English law. If you have two candidates who are equally suitable you're allowed to employ the one with a protected characteristic because of that protected characteristic.