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If anyone needed more evidence that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a barely-closeted MAGA dude-bro who believes women and any other demographic that falls under the “diversity” banner is of lesser value and should be subordinate to good old American white men, they needn’t look any further than his comments on how masculinity in the corporate world has been “neutered” due to far too many women being employed.
Meta is dismantling its employee diversity and equity programs, which have been in place at the company for years, because, as the Washington Post noted, “the technology industry — including Meta — once praised DEI programs as critical to its success,” but now, “many top leaders have criticized the programs in recent years, alleging they are responsible for unqualified hires, inflating payrolls and lowering standards across the field.”
White men like the guy Zuckerberg is clearly taking his cues from, Elon Musk, have been making the claim that DEI is causing qualified white men to lose out on jobs in order to make way for underqualified women and people of color for years now. Of course, none of these perpetually disgruntled white men, including Musk, have been able to present a single shred of evidence that the “DEI hires” they hate so much are, in fact, underqualified. (Musk literally cited white people’s “replies” to the DEI issue on social media as “evidence” backing his anti-DEI narrative.)
As for Zuckerberg — who has also followed in Musk’s footprints by announcing Meta will eliminate fact-checking from its platforms — he doesn’t even appear to be claiming corporate women are underqualified — he just thinks the “energy” women bring to the corporate world is too “feminine” and needs to be met with more “masculine energy” despite the fact that men are still overwhelmingly dominant in every corporate field. And, of course, Zuckerberg chose to share his archaic nonsense with the ultimate professor in pseudo-intellectual dud-bro-ology, Joe Rogan.
From Fortune:
“Masculine energy I think is good, and obviously society has plenty of that, but I think that corporate culture was really trying to get away from it,” Zuckerberg said during a nearly three-hour-long conversation with podcaster Joe Rogan published on Friday.
“It’s like you want feminine energy, you want masculine energy,” Zuckerberg said during the episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. “I think that that’s all good. But I do think the corporate culture sort of had swung toward being this somewhat more neutered thing,” he added, before discussing his passions for mixed martial arts and hunting invasive pigs in Hawaii.
Zuckerberg, who launched his career by rating the attractiveness of women at Harvard University, added that he grew up with three sisters and has three daughters, and wants women to succeed in corporations.
“If you’re a woman going into a company, it probably feels like it’s too masculine. It’s — there isn’t enough of the energy that you may naturally have,” he told Rogan. “You want women to be able to succeed and have companies that can unlock all the value from having great people no matter what their background or gender.”
So, after acknowledging that there is still “plenty” of “masculine energy” in “society,” and that “If you’re a woman going into a company, it probably feels like it’s too masculine,” which is absolutely what most working women experience, he proceeded to note that “you want women to be able to succeed,” just before saying, “But I think these things can all always go a little far.”
Zuckerberg sounds like the diet version of Vice President-elect JD Vance, who has denigrated professional women who chose not to have children, calling them “childless cat ladies,” and has also declared that the “whole purpose of the postmenopausal female” is to be a grandmother. The Meta CEO is also echoing the patriarchal white male nonsense of NFL star Harrison Butker, who referenced “the tyranny of diversity, equity and inclusion,” while essentially telling women who were graduating college that they would be happier in the kitchen and birthing babies than they would be having careers.
Ironically, the person who outlined Meta’s plan to purge itself of everything DEI was a woman, Meta’s vice president of human resources, Janelle Gale, according to the Post.
One can only wonder if Zuckerberg has pulled her to the side and let her know she’s bringing too much “feminine energy” to his “corporate culture.”
It’s almost as if the mainstream “manosphere” is just a bunch of sad little white men whose insecurities flare up at the mere thought of women and people of color infiltrating the positions of power, influence and prestige that, for the overwhelming majority of U.S. history, were exclusively held by sad little white men.
Pathetic.
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