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I'm not convinced the plight of women in tech compares even remotely to the plight of actual minorities in the US.

"Minorities" have always been a bad term for the real issue (was the plight of black South Africans somehow less real because they were the majority?); if you think that women aren't a group that has been, for an extended period of time in the US, subject to both informal and, (at a minimum) until fairly historically recently such that it still has a substantial impact on attitudes, overt and formal discrimination, then you haven't been paying much attention.

I don't think we're talking about police beatings etc., the parallel regards how both women in tech and minority kids in top schools face in general a lot of stereotype specific harassment and threats even when they take large active efforts to excel or blend in.

If you're a man (I'll bet $20 right now that you are) your opinion isn't relevant.

lol that's the way to win an argument.

Don't judge me by what's not between my legs, but what's between YOUR legs makes you irrelevant.

Just a thought: why do you then hang out on a web site with presumably mostly people whose opinions you consider irrelevant?

I think the point is that if the speaker is not one who may have experienced the discrimination then the speaker is not able to say that it does not exist.

Do you agree or disagree with this idea?

(Pithy comments may be fun, but a flame war is not productive.)

And this is why feminism is dead.

That's very insulting to women. Members of other groups that have suffered oppression or discrimination, such as blacks, gays, jews, Native Americans, and many others, have been able to use their reasoning abilities to analyze their experiences and then explain them in terms that members of groups that have not experienced those particular hardships can understand if they wish to. You are implying that such a level of reasoning and communication is beyond women.

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