The Blog Comment That Achieved an Internet Miracle
When I read about the moment of anguish when the author begged to be chemically castrated, I flashed back to guilt felt by some over-scrupulous Catholics I knew in my youth and a certain quote from the gospels: “…but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.” What I’d never personally encountered is a young man whose over-scrupulous was a response to radical feminism.
.. “This is why Silicon Valley is fucked up,” she asserts. “It’s built and run by some of the most privileged people in the world who are convinced that they are among the least.
.. They talked to one another as if whoever was found to possess the most traumatic background or smallest degree of group privilege would win the day ..
.. But if an omniscient being told us the precise degree of absolute and relative privilege possessed by nerds of both genders, feminists, and women in STEM—giving group averages as well as individual privilege scores for all—and if accurate trauma scores were available for groups and individuals too, what good would that do?