Twitter, which “explodes” every 36 hours over each new outrage meme, has become a violent, expanding gas over the Adria Richards affair. By all accounts, it is something with the force of a thousand Hiroshimas. Not since the Oberlin KKKarnival have we seen such wailing and pulling of hair From Around the Web. Unfortunately for my insatiable attention-whoring needs, Bill Price is off on yet another work/life balance hiatus and can’t publish this priceless essay before the meme cycle expires. By the time you are reading this the PyCon row will have been depleted of click-traffic value, milked for all it’s worth by the usual suspects who you can count in the coming week to drum up another example of man’s inhumanity to women, and the cycle will start anew. I intend to profile this phenomenon in an upcoming Spearhead essay titled Femininst Web Sites Costing Businesses, Taxpayers Billions.
As I traveled back east last week, I saw Sheryl Sandberg’s angry mug touting Equality World from every airport video screen. Fortuitously her voice was drowned out by the ubiquitous chorus of screaming black chicks, which Encorpera seems to think must provide background ambience (along with Kenny Rogers) to my every shopping or travel experience. When I departed the hotel I stepped on a free copy of “USA Today”, which featured a full-page photo of a tactical woman fording a river under weight of a gigantic rucksack and M-16, her “jungle pattern” face heroically breaking the surface in a special ops photo-op that would make John Rambo blush with envy. They say women can be infantry soldiers these days. Then, on return home I stupidly got on the internet and become enthralled with the latest gender debacle.
I’ll get to the point : The biggest threat to women who actually work in tech are the Women in Tech. As an example mentioned in my recent examination of self-emergent feminist parody, the Richards affair has blossomed from a heartwarming story about a self-appointed busybody and professional victim to a tragic tale and teaching moment over online bullying.
When a man masters something, he tends to take risks with it. From this coupling of mastery and risk comes innovation. Females can exhibit the same traits, such as a figure skater pushing the performance envelope; her juxtaposition of graceful beauty perched on eminent risk is compelling and irresistible. However, men are more prone to gambling their futures, while women are more prone to securing their futures. These traits are complimentary in functional societies.
All men want to kneecap you. But only men, and only a small fraction of them, take the risks that drive innovation and industry. These alpha-innovators will utilize you to suit their needs, and from this symbiotic predator-prey fundamental, cauldrons of co-worker perfidy emerge as the lesser betas bicker over the gravy train.
Having worked in tech for 30 years now, I have met plenty of sharp gals who could code circles around me, make more pragmatic decisions, and generally be more pleasant to work with than my constant nemesis : fellow male competitors. The easiest of those women seemed to have good, or at least strong, relations with fathers and brothers. They have witnessed their own brothers getting stomped in life, and don’t seize every opportunity to impale men over their minor, daily screw-ups. They can be quietly efficient and have a gift for pointing out some solution or doing it for you.
Which brings us to the “PyCon” imbroglio. For every charming female co-worker just described, working men must endure the Adria Richards in their many guises. We all know her! This episode has become an extreme, iconic example of the feminist poisoning of Encorpera’s waters. Literally a caricature of everything that has gone wrong in American industries and why, when Obama inflicts Title IX on engineering schools, our competitiveness in technical innovation will pass once and for all, overseas.
For women working in tech this should be a loud “wake-up call”. It appears the dam has burst this time and men across the technical spectrum are finally confessing the truth instead of parroting the party line out of fear of removal. Rather than beat men at their own game and winning their respect, there is a steady pipeline of female complainants ready to wield their special powers of victimization to best their male rivals, or in their words, “what’s fair and equal”. It has cast a darker pall across the work-world savannah, and men are recoiling from their female colleagues to avoid being drawn and quartered over some unauthorized “micro-aggression”. Between men though, the mood has taken an ominous turn. Women in tech are now less likely to find champions and advocates among men who are awakening to the cold fact that female co-workers are just more competition with an extra set of tools in their arsenal.
Men are starting to Lean Out.
