Google Engineers Are Organizing A Walk Out To Protest The Company's Protection Of An Alleged Sexual Harasser (buzzfeednews.com)

In response to a story about Google paying and protecting former executive Andy Rubin following an investigation into sexual misconduct, a group of 200 Google employees are organizing a "women's walk." From a report: A group of more than two hundred engineers at Google are organizing a company-wide "women's walk" walkout for later this week to protest recent revelations about the search giant's protection of employees that had allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct, according to four people familiar with the situation inside Google. The protest, which is expected to happen on Thursday, comes in light of a story by the New York Times last week into the misbehavior of Android creator Andy Rubin and other executives at the company, some of whom still have positions of prominence at Google. Google gave Rubin a reported $90 million exit package in 2014, following an investigation into an allegation that he had coerced another employee to perform oral sex on him. That investigation reportedly found that allegation to be credible.

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Re:Fire them all

[AmiMoJo]

Some very old myths there. Let's look at female firefighters. For a start, they tend to be MORE fit than their male counterparts according to the biggest study (Jahnke, Sara A. (June 2018). "Maternal and Child Health Among Female Firefighters in the U.S.". Maternal and Child Health Journal. 22 (6): 922â"931., paywalled I'm afraid).

The lowered standards thing is largely a myth too. Most female firefighters want to be held to the same standards as their male counterparts, and since men continue in the service into their 50s and those standards are lower than many presume anyway (the days of carrying people down long ladders are mostly over, not least because of the obesity crisis and buildings designed to avoid the need for it) it's not actually difficult for women to reach that level anyway.

On top of all that there is no statistical evidence of things getting worse as women were allowed to join fire fighting. Instead things have been consistently getting better, mostly due to improved technology and fire dampening systems.

Re:What's going on?

[drinkypoo]

The only witch hunts are against straight white males, especially those in positions of power

It's a natural reaction to millennia of abuse by straight white males abusing positions of power. By all means, though, blame the victims. That's easier than addressing their problems.