And my point is that sure, it’s not 50/50.  But it’s also not the 80/20 or worse that we have seen.  We know the current state distribution is a product of massive social discouragement of women getting into tech, of rampant sexual harassment, and women quitting because of toxic misogyny.

You can make the same argument about underrepresentation of black people, and I can highlight the constant racism and underpayment that I personally have faced that have influenced me leaving Google.

That’s why the argument dude (and you) are making is insidiously bad faith.  There are well documented social factors that discourage female participation in the space that you cannot discount when making broad generalizations about gender suitability for tech based on current state gender distribution 

 if you somehow eliminated discrimination from the equation, you would still not theoretically expect 50/50 representation assuming freedom of occupational choice.

Sure, but by the same token, they aren’t actually so great that the actual representation of women in tech reflects the true distribution either.  Since google was getting sued for sexual discrimination they were very much culpable for, and behaviors that are rampant in the industry.

Dude just plain ignored real world socialization that was happening right in front of him to play into sexist tropes that represented abjectly poor statistical analysis.  That’s why it’s not benign, it’s outright bad faith.  Evidenced by him being coached by Jordan Peterson and immediately hitting the alt right media circuit and nowhere else.

I think it’s ok to cancel someone who actively creates a hostile work environment.

Not gonna keep one male asshole at the expense of losing dozens of female engineers

Oh, you mean you can say any kind of insulting shit and just claim autism to not face consequences?

Google Cloud was serious about it.  A particularly shit review of our leadership in our org in 2020 lead to some middle management firings

Still is.

People were just insulted by it and shared it.

Remember, google was being sued for sexual discrimination at the time.  Reading the room is a critical life skill

Sucks when you hold up a mirror and see something gross, huh?

From all reports (I started at google 3 years after he was gone), this was the bad faith approach to “just asking questions” given the gross statistical errors on which his narrative was founded.

The fact that he was coached by Jordan Peterson and immediately hit the alt right media circuit when the shit hit the fan is more evidence of the malicious intent.

Google settled, so he likely got something low 6 figures

The SF types are shy Tory Liberals.  They make a big show about progressive values because Sam Francisco, but support a fiscally conservative platform

I think you would be wrong most of the time for African immigrants.

We confuse the fuck out of white Americans about how we vote, because you guys treat black as an ethnic group rather than people who happen to have the same skin color.