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I wanted to point out one of their conclusions in particular:

1. Small individual bias → Large collective bias.
When someone says a culture is shapist, they're not saying the individuals in it are shapist. They're not attacking you personally.

This is a really important point that gets a lot of arguments hung up on nonproductive "not all men"-type fooforaw lately. If someone says that e.g. gamer culture is sexist, or even if they (perhaps inadvisably) use shorthand and say "gamers are sexist," they are not saying that I and every other single person who plays games is personally sexist.

Yeah, one of the first things I noticed was that while the obvious analogy was race in a neighborhood, there was another fairly easy analogy for gender in a workplace.

They are saying that, and they are acting like that.

Asking people to agree that they are not is simply a shibboleth.

They are saying that, and they are acting like that.

This is trivially false, since most of the people saying that gamer culture is sexist are themselves gamers.

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