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> Even if they were not deliberate about it Which is statistically close to impossible.
...but when men are in the 80%, that's a statistic you can believe?
Yes, because men outnumber women in that field
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#172This whole thread is deeply disturbing. The bald statement in the headline is deeply disturbing. The fundamental assumption that women can't possibly be deserving of management positions. That any objective measure of performance would certainly favor men. That any man that loses his job to a woman has been treated unfairly.
Exactly! The previous CEO picked 80% of senior management of the same gender and that's fine, but Meyer does the exact same and suddenly it's sexist?
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#174As a man in technology... this seems fine. The playing field is already tilted against women in tech, so if someone intentionally levels it, that's great! And I don't really care if they tilt it the other direction. Those men will find work elsewhere, no problem. (I am not taking a stance here on Mayer's other management practices, to be clear.) Discrimination against an otherwise unoppressed majority really fails to…
As a man in tech from an underprivileged background, I couldn't disagree more. I worked as a cleaner for three years while educating myself, at the same time slowly winning freelance work. I know and worked with other men who went through similar situations. That we might be considered ripe for purging due to our genitalia is some somewhat remarkable. That people seem to support it with apparent glee is disheartening…
Maybe you don't understand. White men are all the same. They all grew up with a silver spoon in their mouths and no hurdles to overcome. Life is just easy for them. /s
Re: Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Give it a rest. Trumpeting your PC nonsense won't help you. You understood what he meant. Communication successful, despite your protest!
It's not about successful communication, it's about how you present an entire group of people. Using the term "the blacks" or "Blacks" makes you sound like Archie Bunker, dude. Negative social signal.
Maybe the goal is to send a specific type of social signal so people like you can self-select themselves out of his life? The term isn't pejorative. So, chill out.
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It's not reverse discrimination; it's just discrimination.
So much this. There isn't a thing as 'reverse discrimination'. Discrimination is discrimination, regardless of who is doing it.
Reverse discrimination is just reactionary discrimination that hasn't become mainstream yet.
There's a good Dr Seuss story about a guy that comes into town with a machine that stamps a star on your chest. A few people get it and think they're better than everyone else until everyone gets the star and the fashion becomes not having the star, and the story oscillates between star and no-star until everyone's out of money and the huckster with the star/no-star machine moves onto the next town.
Discrimination of all kinds is and has always been about mobilizing people against each other for the sake of accumulating power/money/resources.
Discrimination... discrimination never changes.
Re: Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
#177I'm deeply offended by this and personally I will cease to use Yahoo Mail. I urge any self-respecting males to stop using any of Yahoo services as a form of protest for this despicable act of discrimination. And I'm serious; too much is too much.
But it was ok when 80% men were in charge. No laptop rage then. No calls of boycott for discrimination. No sir; men are naturally in charge and anything else is a subversion of the natural order. This whole thread is disturbing at a very basic level.
Is the claim that back when it was 80% men they were hired in those numbers simply because of their gender?
Re: Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
#178This whole thread is deeply disturbing. The bald statement in the headline is deeply disturbing. The fundamental assumption that women can't possibly be deserving of management positions. That any objective measure of performance would certainly favor men. That any man that loses his job to a woman has been treated unfairly.
Exactly! The previous CEO picked 80% of senior management of the same gender and that's fine, but Meyer does the exact same and suddenly it's sexist?
Again, perhaps not the 'exact same'. How do we know this time it wasn't done fairly?
Re: Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it was ok when 80% men were in charge. No laptop rage then. No calls of boycott for discrimination. No sir; men are naturally in charge and anything else is a subversion of the natural order. This whole thread is disturbing at a very basic level.
Is the claim that back when it was 80% men they were hired in those numbers simply because of their gender?
No claim. Just astonished at the assumption implicit in this thread, that it can't be correct that 80% of competent managers at Yahoo! are female.