OK, this is the last article I ever read on slashdot. As a white male who works in the tech industry I come here to read about tech. Over the last few years every other article seems to be about some resentful group or another who I'm oppressing by existing, having white skin pigment, having male genitals or being heterosexual.

If you hate your readership that much slashdot, why should I patronize your shitty website?

It's time to fuck off, so off I am going to duly fuck.

Sex, gender, race. If you're not in one of the proscribed circles of resentment, you've got "privilege" and can't have an opinion.

others like to say it is about keeping girls out of the gaming clubhouse.

They say that, but there are lots of girls in the gaming clubhouse and in #gamergate itself. What they hate the most is the idea that they're helpless shrinking violets.

Yes, it's perfectly acceptable to do that to men, especially white heterosexual men. You see according to feminist theory we didn't just invent the modern world, we're also responsible for everything that's wrong with it.

The one morsel of Marxist doctrine still evidently cherished by the left, radical feminists particularly, is false consciousness.

Hint: They aren't. The Factual Feminist explains. She's the only feminist I've seen recently who actually makes any sense.

This is the biggest pile of bollocks I've ever read at slashdot and as you can imagine it's up against some pretty stiff competition. (Am I allowed to use the word "stiff", or is that a gendered slur that reinforces the patriarchy?).

This, for example: "gendered bigotry against women is widely considered to be "in bounds" by Internet commenters". It is? No, it isn't.

The only gendered bigotry I come across on the internet these days, especially Twitter, involves pejorative uses of the phrase "straight white male".

But that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with "climate change". Indeed, the whole thesis is complete tripe given the steady decrease in global poverty and world hunger over the last 25 years. I needn't bother saying there's been no statistically significant warming for 18 years either, need I?

I would define life as a "unit of selection". But that would imply certain minerals are also units of selection. I mean minerals evolve don't they, from basic refractories (about 60 varieties) that appear when stars explode to the more complex varieties that evolve through geological processes on planets like ours. I suppose in a way this is an example of the "tyranny of the discontinuous mind"; where for convenience and because our brains are effectively machines for classifying things, we see joins where there really aren't any.

This is an excellent point. Of course replicators existed on Earth before cells had DNA. According to Nick Lane DNA would have been rather late to the party and is more a useful technological advance that gives cells a more independent existence than they would otherwise have.

And the US is building gas terminals to export their glut overseas. Europe hasn't even started with shale yet either, for political reasons. There's absolutely no excuse, If it does happen it will be entirely down to retarded policies of the European Union, which committed to "decarbonisation" at massive cost, whilst at the same time cosying up to the Mafia regime in Moscow for its energy supplies.

$710 trillion. Now unwind all of those trades and tell me how much it actually is. Also stop watching Prison Planet.

They aren't straw men.

I totally destroyed your reply didn't I.

It used to be about equality of opportunity. But now we have equality of opportunity it has morphed into equality of outcome. This is a very different thing indeed.

"social justice" is based on the extremely faulty assertion that everybody is the same and that absolutely every trait or preference you may have is culturally constructed. Once you take on board the basic concept that men and women are different and that on average their college major and career preferences reflect this difference, it's not hard to understand why there's less "diversity" in technology businesses.

Straw Man indeed.