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Let's be frank, if it was "Eric" rather than "Ellen" Pao (and, even more so, if it were "Smith" rather than "Pao"), we wouldn't be hearing 1/1,000,000th the upr
by LGBT_2000 11y ago
Let's be frank, if it was "Eric" rather than "Ellen" Pao (and, even more so, if it were "Smith" rather than "Pao"), we wouldn't be hearing 1/1,000,000th the uproar we've heard about all this.
Nothing drives Angry White Men on The Internet more ballistic than a woman or a person of color in a position of authority. You see the exact same thing with the sheer insanity the right-wing is driven to by President Obama's essentially centrist administration.
- engi_nerd 11y agoPlease provide evidence to support your statement, because I do not see how your second and third sentences necessarily follow from the first.
- LGBT_2000 11y agoWe unfortunately do not have enough women or people of color in positions of authority for me to provide some rigorous statistics documenting the experiences of a swath of such people (though this gives a good indicator we've got a problem). However, it seems quite clear to me that minorities in positions of authority or public visibility face a level of vitriol unlike that experienced by some boring old white guy. Look at the level of hatred directed towards Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama; look at the hatred directed towards a woman trying to present at a tech conference; look at the death threats Anita Sarkeesian has received for making YouTube videos on video games.
- dudul 11y agoI love your parody of delusional sjw. Very authentic. If only you had mentioned the patriarchy! It would have been sjw bingo.
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