"IT men = incel danger"

Article here. Excerpt:

'THE WORLD HAS recently become more terrifyingly aware of incels, which, if you don’t already know, stands for “involuntary celibate.” It’s an underground coalition of mainly men who complain about how society actively and unfairly deprives them of sex, often, they say, because they are too ugly or too fat.

It is, of course, nonsense. Incels are usually conspiracy theorists, not victims, who believe the world is purposely denying them their fundamental right to sex on demand—and who share many values and tactics with white supremacist, men’s rights, and alt-right groups. Self-declared incels encourage violent acts, including the “incel rebellion” in Toronto that killed 10 people and injured 20 more.

What hasn’t been discussed much is their presence in our everyday lives, including our workplaces. Like many groups of young men whose misogynistic beliefs gestate online, incels often work in the tech industry and in engineering—and because of tech’s long-standing, well-quantified lack of women and other underrepresented groups, it’s a natural fit.

Technology plays a central role for these hate groups, as a career and as a weapon. On incel forums, they pride themselves on their tech contributions; they joke that the world would collapse without them to maintain network infrastructures, and that their companies would fail without them. They move seamlessly among online hate group forums where racism and misogyny feed on one another.'

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This is a thinly-veiled attempt to declare war on (white) male IT workers.

Failing thus far to get women to be interested in programming, feminists are now just plain going after men in IT.  The author lumps "incels" in with MRAs and anyone white and male.  The tone of the whole piece is paranoid and downright nutty.  "Wired" has really gone downhill.

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Ellen Pao is a perfect example of the feminist agenda that is currently gaining traction in the media, education, commerce and academia. That is, finding an event or events that invoke fear and outrage in the community, and then reframing that as a primarily gendered issue related to masculinity generally.
While in the past, this kind of shrill hate speech was only published in local feminist blogs with few readers, it is now being published in mainstream media, without being challenged for what it is.
It's hate speech and should be called out for what it is.

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