Freedom, prosperity and happiness require people to develop and encourage an attitude that can be described in five words:

Voluntary cooperation for mutual benefit

This is the secret of capitalism, the secret of democracy, and it also the secret to a successful career and family life. Selfish, envious people — those who view life as a zero-sum game, where one person’s gain is always another person’s loss — are the very worst people in the world. And speaking of feminists . . .

Every week, we are subjected to stroppy Gawker posts and soporific op-eds in national newspapers about how a woman in the technology industry who was fired for poor performance was secretly a high-achieving go-getter brought down by entrenched sexism and patriarchal oppression.

And every week we’re told that the reason more women aren’t working in technology is a combination of sexism, outdated social attitudes and stereotypes, historical prejudices and too few educational support programmes for women.

We’re told that women find it more difficult to get jobs and that when they do get jobs they’re subjected to hostile workplaces, sexism and bullying and that they’re paid less than their male counterparts for the same work.

We’re invited to believe, contrary to the evidence all around us, that the highly-progressive, socially-conscious and liberal-minded technology industry is in fact one of the most retrograde and oppressive places for women to work.

But here’s the dirty secret about the shrill and insatiable “women in tech” movement: none of that is true.

Read the whole thing by Milo Yiannopoulos at Breitbart.com. Feminism is simply organized selfishness — unhappy women using political ideology to rationalize their own failures and resentments. Presenting men and women as hostile groups engaged in a competition — gender warfare — provides unhappy women with an all-purpose scapegoat for their disappointments: “Smash patriarchy!”

Of all the many excellent points Milo makes, it’s hard to single out a favorite, but this one is crucially important:

7. Identifying As A ‘Woman In Tech’ Is The Kiss Of Death For Your Career

That’s not because employers don’t believe women should have equal access, but because it tells them certain things about your personality. Namely, that you’re likely to be trouble. They worry, with some justification, about bogus sexual harassment claims, which are rampant.

If there’s a problem in the tech workplace it might be that women can bring frivolous gender discrimination lawsuits against their old firms, costing companies in some cases over $100,000 in lawyers’ fees to dismiss, at little or no cost to the woman, who was fired for perfectly acceptable reasons.

The phenomenon of “go-away money” — where any woman who makes a discrimination or harassment claim is handed a year’s salary as payment to leave and avoid the costs of litigation — is a well-known racket, and it is typically not the productive, efficient, team-player type of woman who makes such claims. So if an employer has reason to believe a female applicant is “likely to be trouble,” as Milo says, she won’t get hired. The private sector doesn’t give a damn about “social justice,” they just want profit, and they don’t want to spend money defending against a lawsuit filed by some disgruntled idiot with a Women’s Studies degree.

BOOM: "One thing you’ll never hear is calls for more boys in subjects dominated by girls …" @nero http://t.co/w0zHPhCBHO — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 19, 2015

Feminist is "in school to be a game designer" because she wants to DESTROY GAMING. http://t.co/OjFS6Cj8O3 @TheRalphRetort @Nero #GamerGate — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 19, 2015

@Everlaststar You are OPPRESSED by the PATRIARCHY! Your GENDER is SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED by the HETEROSEXUAL MATRIX. @TheRalphRetort @Nero — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 19, 2015









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