Affirmative action is almost entirely about data collection. What's discriminatory about data collection?

There is an imbalance in the world of elite jazz instrumentalists. There are far, far more men than women who are at the top of that profession.

It is not due to lack of interest in jazz. We know this because elite jazz singers are split pretty much 50/50 men and women.

It is not due to lack of skill. We know this because elite classical instrumentalists on those very same instruments are split pretty much 50/50 men and women.

Your task is to explain how this is due to biology and not culture.

The best way to fight discrimination is to find out exactly where the discrimination is happening, and then fix that. This is known as "affirmative action".

PHP programmers are considered "normal" these days? Only by comparison to the Ruby crowd.

I take it you haven't jumped ship to JIRA yet. Everyone else has.

I'm not so sure about that. It's well known that Megaupload was popular with some music producers for transferring work around.

There are plenty of files that I'm legally allowed to access but you aren't. If we both put them on a file sharing site, and your copy was removed, I'd be pretty annoyed if my copy was too.

In real life, if Barbie became a game developer, she'd never afford the dream house and would receive rape and death threats (not to mention the inevitable doxxing) for daring to express an opinion on social media.

Maybe the book was just trying to protect girls from the Gators.

Richard Pryor and George Carlin likely wouldn't have existed and succeeded today.

I call BS. Louis C.K. exists and is a success today.

If crime has been rising constantly on a per capita basis for the last 40 years (and I don't know that this is the case), it's probably because the definition of what constitutes a "crime" is changing, or possibly that you're counting arrests and convictions rather than crimes.

At any rate, all criminologists agree that the rate of violent crime has been steadily decreasing since colonial times.

Is it appropriate for the government to determine what is considered sexist?

I don't know about where you live, but where I live the government already has more stringent non-discriminatory hiring policies than the private sector. Not only is it appropriate, but it's arguably more appropriate.

While I have no reason to doubt that the CISO at Juniper is an accomplished IT professional and a nice person, they don't give out Turing Awards for that.

Let alone the visual arts. Or real estate.

They are not as upfront and blunt about their opinions [...]

If there's one thing that third wave feminists can't possibly be accused of, it's holding back.

[...] instead going with "assume guilty" concept of privilege, dubious historical revisionism of patriarchy, and shifting goalposts of constant redefining of sexual assault to include almost any heterosexual activity, including consensual drunken marital sex.

So you don't actually understand it then. That's fine; there's no shame in ignorance.

But let me give you a free clue. To critically analyse an argument, the first thing you need to do is understand it, and the very first lecture in any university level critical thinking class covers the fundamental piece of methodology without which you are not thinking critically: the principle of charity. Learn this, and you've taken the first step towards reason.

Do you call guys "honey"? If you do and you're not gay, then congratulations on pushing gender norm boundaries!

For those who live in Australia, don't forget WICEN. The US really should have something similar.