Why? I mean, you took two paragraphs to write "I disagree", but you forgot the ", because".
I'm sorry, that's not how it works. You don't get to keep a giant population down and then just extract the occasional diamonds and ignore the rest. You need to pull the entire thing if you want those diamonds to be created.
> they shouldn't simply be put into these positions by virtue of the "minority" (quoted for lack of a better word) traits ALONE
Why do people always state this as if it's the only possible reality? You go from "on minority basis ALONE" to "incredibly competent" in one fell swoop.
I seriously hope you don't have people in your organization that are so incompetent that the only reason you could think of promoting them is because they're in an underprivileged group. Because otherwise, your statement doesn't make any sense. It's like you are already signing up for a reality where members of underprivileged group cannot possibly be the kinds of members you'd very much want to have.
That's not what we're saying. What we're saying is that among the group of cool people that you have in your organization, maybe notice the women sometimes. And don't expect them to be "incredibly competent". Just competent enough. The same way you treat everyone else.
That being said, I do agree with what you say. I was guessing at what the (ggg)gp comment meant. I'm sure I could have worded it better, but I don't have much experience with any of this. Seriously, thank you for explaining it to me.
Why what? Why do I fight injustice and sexism? Or why do I think sexism branded as feminism is a such a colossal problem?
The former is pretty obvious, I think few people in the west think sexism is a good idea, personally I subscribe to a pretty mainstream individualist moral stance. I wrote some thoughts about this in some parallel comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13737987
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13737437
As for the latter, that's a much longer discussion for which unfortunately I do not have the time to get into sufficient detail. Nor do I think this is an appropriate forum for this discussion considering all the downvotes I am getting (no complaining, just stating a fact). Oxitendwe (in this thread) has briefly touched the crux of the issue, however. Mainly that is an attempt of a power grab over society, one that fundamentally has very little to do with women, and in the end it will cause more harm to women than men. I, and most likely my children and friends are directly affected by this power grab.