Being a woman

I was working in DEI and diversity recruiting for tech before it took off, or the corporate equal of affirmative action. In theory, one is the beneficiary of affirmative action if one is put over the top due to race or gender, all other things being equal. I’ve also seen people get hired for their race or gender over their abilities, and it turned

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The first morning in SF, I got accosted by a white dude for speaking to my Indian female friend about women needing single sex restrooms. So-called liberals stifle dissenting opinions of even strangers in public places with such religious zeal it’s no wonder most people feel oppressed under this ideological regime and self-censor. In berating me, t

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Whenever I mention women’s cruelty toward each other to women socially, I hear a reflexive blaming of patriarchy, an abstract, immeasurable, and unfalsifiable concept. This is concerning because we do have control over our own behavior toward others, and it seems leftist ideology wants to studiously ignore it. You can choose not to be a bully. We d

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I keep hearing casual references to how difficult it is to be a woman in America today, but no one really explains why. I also know I’m not supposed to ask why because that’s just not how women talk. They consider debate to be an offensive logic bro activity. In the clearest of terms: this is not a patriarchy as it is imagined when women casually s

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I rejected identity leftism because my view on human nature changed. If you think humans would essentially behave rationally and pro-socially but not for prejudice and deprivation you might support things like reduced/no policing and legalizing all drugs. But if you see humans as essentially flawed and needing to be kept in line with deterrents, th

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Women are not impelled to agree with each other on abortion. Many women voted for restrictions in red states as did others who voted for Trump while also voting in favor of abortion rights. First, people, especially women are allowed to deviate from the professional class woman’s opinion about abortion. In fact, Democrats themselves ran away from a

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Women were once held back. We got power, and we abused it. I abused my power, too, before I found philosophy. The irony was that I never thought I had power. The culture that taught me to wield the power also denied that women had it at all. So, I learned to use it by believing I don’t have it, in all sincerity. This denial of having power while us

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