On managing outrage in Silicon Valley
Could someone opposed to the arguments the manifesto makes explain to me what quotes caused them to strongly dislike it?<p>Reading the reactions to the manifesto I&#x27;m left feeling like I&#x27;m taking crazy pills. I must have read a different manifesto.<p>AFAICT the main idea of the manifesto is that biological differences between men and women account for part of the representation gap. This seems to be perfectly logical and fair to me. Whether the explained part is significant or just a fraction of a percent should definitely be discussed. The available version of the manifesto not having its sources makes this a lot harder though.<p>&gt; The text of the post is reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted.<p>If your offense is with the manifesto misrepresenting the amount of the gap explained by biological differences I can relate to your point of view and this post is not directed at you (which quotes of the manifesto lead to this impression would still be interesting to hear).<p>If not, I would really like to understand where you are coming from.
The manifesto does not seem sexist (e.g. representing women in tech as inadequate) to me. Some quotes from the manifesto to support my claim:<p>&gt; I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes.<p>&gt; Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business<p>&gt; Many of these [biological] differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.<p>&gt; I hope it’s clear that I’m not saying that diversity is bad, that Google or society is 100% fair, that we shouldn’t try to correct for existing biases, or that minorities have the same experience of those in the majority.<p>&gt; I’m also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I’m advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group (tribalism).<p>Please help me understand.