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As 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 make me care. (Caveat: That's along a single axis of oppression; I recognize that intersectionality is a thing, etc.)

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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.

If you recognise intersectionality is "a thing", how can you justify supporting any measure which discriminates based on an arbitrary attribute such as gender? Surely the concept is one which demands a little more nuance in matters like this?

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

How can you be fine with laying off persons based on their sex?

You come out as someone who has chucked the whole keg of coolaid.

"Discrimination against an otherwise unoppressed majority really fails to make me care." - You don't think that leads to oppression? When will you care? When white males are rounded up in death camps and ridden by BLM deathsquads, will you care then?

You don't think it is comparable to saying "Discrimination against islam - a religious majority really fails to make me care" ?

Would it be safe to assume, then, that you're in favour of massive cookie-cutter layoffs of female nurses to level out the gender imbalance there?

And lets start with "intentionally levels it". Why is there evidence that is happening? It would be equally reasonable to say "when the discrimination of male managers is removed".

Or are we to assume that its natural and right for 80% of managers to be men.

These were not tech (engineering) jobs. The article talks about Media, the divisions Marketing and Yahoo News editors.

Ah, I missed that! Thanks for the correction.

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