Many Google employees disagree with the firing of the memo writer

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Soundwave said:
Google stated the reason for his firing ... they are ok with voicing of opinions but by trying to push that angle that women are inferior at computers in effect he made himself a liability at work since I'm going to take a wild guess here and say other women work at Google, and how exactly would many of them feel working with/alongside him going forward?

Working at a corporation is not a green light to get up on a soap box, if you have made yourself a liability in making others uncomfortable at work, that's a problem. Politics can be chosen and can be left outside the office, a person's gender is a little more difficult to put aside.

Also the science on this is hardly conclusive, which is another problem with it. There are other studies that point out there isn't much/any difference in the male/female brain, so why should women at his work have to be branded under studies wherein he believes they are inferior at their job by virtue of their sex? And why is he so threatened by outreach towards women anyway? What if the next great innovator/design in his field turns out to be a woman? Why should they stop outreach because it makes him uncomfortable? If it's something that doesn't take at all, it will be borne out in time, why don't we wait and see how a more inclusive environment works out.

Pretty sure women are a driving force in the usage of the most popular modern computer, which is the smartphone ... hell my fiance taught herself to photo edit, video edit on her iPhone and knows that thing inside out, whereas 10-15 years ago the "conventional computer logic" would be that personal computing assistants in your pocket should be mainly for businessmen, and those silly women will never get the hang of this new internet era. Well how wrong did that line of thinking turn out to be?

Based on your post, it is obvious you didn't read the memo, but still felt compelled to put in your two cents.

He NEVER said women are inferior - those are YOUR words.  Why would you say such things when the memo does not?

He in no way is "threatened" by outreach, he actually states ways he believes they could encourage women to WANT to be engineers in the memo.

 

Regardless, it apparent your "ling of thinking" is to critique something you didn't even read.  Your ignorance is showing.