[seldo]

> As long as people care far more about the plight of women than the plight of men ... we're never going to achieve anything resembling equality.

I'm unclear on your thesis here: is your position that the reason women are disadvantaged in society in general and tech in particular because we "care more about the plight of women"? Because that seems illogical.

But the only other interpretation I can think of is that you think men are at a disadvantage to women, which is a laughable assertion.

Your account is 6 days old, of course, so I may be just feeding a troll here.

[a-t-shirt]

> But the only other interpretation I can think of is that you think men are at a disadvantage to women, which is a laughable assertion.

For men and women born since the mid-1980s, absolutely. And crime, education, and income statistics support my assertion.

[seldo]

It is possible for it to be simultaneously true that men are more frequently victims of violent crime, perform worse in standardized tests, and earn less than women[1] and also that women are more frequently the victims of sexual assault[2] and other forms of harassment, prevented from taking the careers of their choice[3], and subject to a greater degree of criticism in the media for the same actions[4].

The existence of things that are bad for men does mean that men have things harder than women. The fact that there are things we should fix for men does not mean we can ignore the things that are broken for women. This is not a zero-sum game, and it is not productive to determine who "has it worse". There are things that are bad for women that happen to women, and we should stop those things happening without questioning whether they are "deserving" of doing so.

[1] Though I have never seen any stats that back up this last assertion, ever.

[2] https://rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-...

[3] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131007151635.ht...

[4] http://thoughtcatalog.com/nico-lang/2013/03/how-we-criticize...