My Google Internship
&quot;It’s Googley to stand up for diversity and inclusion, such as protesting against binary gendering on toilets&quot;<p>This is BS.<p>99.99% of the world is find with the &#x27;binary signage&#x27; on toilets, and it is absolutely not &#x27;anti trans&#x27; or &#x27;anti anyone else&#x27; frankly, to do so.<p>BTW - this is not like a 1960&#x27;s movement - you&#x27;re not in the &#x27;right side of history&#x27; here. &#x27;Binary Gender&#x27; is, and will always be normative, simply because almost everyone is binary, and is fine with it. The number of people who actually have issues with &#x27;binary&#x27; is very, very small. Even most people who are trans are <i>still</i> &#x27;binary&#x27; (!) i.e. they identify as one gender or the other, not anything in between.<p>I somehow doubt that &#x27;it&#x27;s Googley&#x27; to be this, this may be a little bit of a stretch, or &#x27;mis-articulation&#x27; by the author.<p>Though I don&#x27;t have a problem at all with someone who is &#x27;anti gender binary&#x27; (I don&#x27;t really care) - I <i>do</i> have a problem with a company that pushes social extremism as part of their culture. It&#x27;s just more evidence of the culty behaviour at Google.<p>I make a hobby of studying cults. I used to go into the Scientology clinic to &#x27;take the test&#x27; and kind of debate with them, to get an understanding of how they are. I used to read a lot of their stuff - not for the &#x27;knowledge&#x27; but to grasp the nature of the organization.<p>These kinds of &#x27;ideals&#x27; are actually far more about creating a coherent group, than projecting any ideals.<p>Google is a good company, generally, but they do some nefarious things with our data. One of the great things about having a &#x27;we are morally superior&#x27; cult, is that any decision made by Google that can feasibly be considered unethical - won&#x27;t be, using the internal logic of &#x27;We don&#x27;t do evil, so, what we are doing cannot be evil&#x27;.<p>Anyhow, it takes working at several companies for a while to start to figure this out.