I understood the comment you replied to as sexism being the only cause acceptable to society at large. If you suggest different reasons, you'd get in trouble if you worked at Google for example.
> sexism being the only cause acceptable to society at large
That's how I understood it.
> If you suggest different reasons, you'd get in trouble if
> you worked at Google for example.
Unfortunately, it seems so. And this is the same most places I've experienced. In academia for example, you couldn't even pose the question in most places - there would be protests, your tenure would be under review, your funding would be cut - to name a few possibilities. If academics are nothing, they are overly cautious.
You have to ask yourself for example why the term "intellectual dark web" was coined [1]. They don't refer to them as 'wrong' or 'conspiracy theorists', they just pose different questions, and for that alone they were ostracized.
I refuse to live in a world where even posing the question is not possible. If Google won't dare hire me, I'll build my own theme park with blackjack and hookers [2].
