When I see this stuff sometimes I egg it on a bit.

I can see your comment, regardless of its wisdom, being ignored for various reasons.

So instead, I encourage the social justice warriors to take enough of the rope to hang themselves.

Let them and even their attendees suffer boring, rigid, fearful, attendance declining events, with fewer parties, less tolerance of alcohol, as well as the declining reputation of the profession as one with a hot bed of sexism.

Let them win the battles until their Victorian policies come crashing down and are hung around their necks.

What can I say? Sometimes you do have to burn the village down in order to save it. Or nuke the site from orbit.

Might be a warlock hunt, just to be fair to men and not gynocentric.
But, yes, Jerry has the right idea.

I encourage the social justice warriors to take enough of the rope to hang themselves.

They hang all of us when given that rope -- and first and foremost, men.

Bora Zivkovic, for example.

More on Bora:

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2015/02/17/a_man_is_out_of.html

One solution is what they do at my current place of employment (and God, how I cannot wait until I find work elsewhere!).

Their solution is to hold "Women Only" events. Yep, that's right, men are excluded to make the women feel safer, more empowered, more free to speak their minds without men judging them.

It is rather shocking to me how they don't see what they are doing is discriminatory. Could you imagine the uproar if they held "men only" events?

was it the evo psych conference?

I'm not going to say what the event was.

And, this is why I seek out jobs where 99% of the employees are men.

Women are turning into giant assholes.

It's amazing that women (and their well-meaning male lackeys) think that what we would actually call paternalism is the road to equality.

Then again, as I've said before, I don't think equality is the goal; it's unearned power over men and shaming men for male sexuality.

Equality is not the goal. Equality means no one to blame, but possibly yourself. Blaming men is not equality.

Reminds me of those folks who go through therapy and when the therapist tells them the root of their problem is based in a childhood situation, they think they're cured because now their parents are to blame, not themselves - totally misunderstanding that while the problem may be based in the situation, their reaction to it is the root cause.

The SJW have not yet reached a level of maturity at which they can objectively analyze a situation and accept their own culpability. Someone else must be blamed and made to pay.

"The SJW have not yet reached a level of maturity at which they can objectively analyze a situation and accept their own culpability." ConanTG

What makes you believe that's the point? As with most human movements, the point is POWER...

The fact that we could imagine a dystopian hell from the resulting civilization, doesn't matter if they get theirs. We see this in myriad ways right now.

The SJW's and the PC lackeys have already shut down a lot of very valuable studies, and scientific inquiry into intelligence, sex differences, environmental science and genetics.

You need to suggest to them that a "safe space" should be a consideration for designing a kindergarden, not for an academic conference.

If a moron feels safe from criticism at an academic conference, you have missed the purpose of even holding one.

And I would bet dollars that it was ev-psych.

Safe spaces were an invention of the psych crowd, and it will be the death of their discipline having any connection to actual scientific inquiry at all.

Academic disagreement is now *bullying*.

"It's amazing that women (and their well-meaning male lackeys) think that what we would actually call paternalism is the road to equality."

Yeah, everything old is new again. Most American univerities abandoned the loco parentis philosophy in the '70s. (And I was perfectly happy to be rid of it when I was in school in the early '80s. The school I went to had the philosophy that you were an adult and you were expected to take care of your own well-being.) It seems that America's college students today want the academies transformed back into finishing schools, with quasi-Victorian values.

You can see paternalism creeping back into the workplace too. I wonder when mill villages and payment in company scrip will come back.

It has already started CD. Why do you think Microsoft and Google offer such great campuses. Keep the workers on the reservation. Don't let them interact with outsiders. Make changing jobs a major ordeal requiring changing all providers, housing/food/medical/... Schlumberger tries to do the same thing with their engineers. Having non-Schlum friends can be a fireable offense.

Schlumberger, eh... Back in my pup engineer days, they owned a CAD systems house called Applicon. I worked for a company that was one of Applicon's biggest customers in the U.S. The Applicon field sevice people used to tell us much the same, that they were watched by Schlumberger management like goldfish in a bowl, and that people who were known to have close outside acquaintances got questioned about it.

It really is their loss CD. I got a look under the hood at some Sclum tech, and my first impression was expensive and ham fisted. There are a number of cheaper and more elegant solutions used at other companies but their fear prevents them from learning from others. They also don't hire experienced engineers, only new college grads. So that closes another way for knowledge to flow.

Now, don't get me wrong. Schlum has a lot of money. They represent ~50% of the R&D dollars in the drilling industry. So they do have some of the best tools out there. They just have to pay out the nose to make them.