everyone who takes psych 101 in college is taught that women and men have different psychological patterns on average. women like to vent in order to process their feelings, while men like to go straight to solutions, and so on.

but according to sundar pitchai &co, the mental differences between men and women do not exist. somehow, the human body forms itself in predictable ways based on gender, but the brain is exactly the same. gender-related stroke symptoms, gender-specific hormones and endocrine system differences, these simply do not real. the industry agrees with us, says eric schmidt.

tech media and twitter are quick to brand james damore: look, they cry, he wears the scarlet letter of the misogynist. and while the ideological elite have their masked ball, an anonymous poll within google shows the internal population to be split on their support of the document. would you be clamoring to voice your opinion with your name attached when people within your company are posting that they will refuse to work with your kind?

this memo will likely cause a greater ideological crackdown, but i hope it is also the catalyst for a rude awakening.