Disparate outcomes on a spreadsheet organised by categories like sex and race are assumed to indicate only the presence of oppression and therefore something to be fixed by controversial affirmative action policies and other discriminatory practices. Incremental progress towards artificial 50/50 ratios of biological characteristics are lauded as unambiguous social goods - these are the "warm and fuzzies" alluded to above. I'm not denying that oppression plays some role in disparate outcomes, but I object to it being presented, as it plainly is, as the only major factor. The reality is highly multivariate.