An Undead Sexist Cliche That Walks Like a Man!

To wit, Pax Dickinson, CTO at the Business Insider website. Apparently he’s been making Tweets about women for a while, but just this week they attained some critical mass in public awareness:
“Women’s suffrage and individual freedom are incompatible. How’s that for an unpopular truth?” Of course it’s not true, but the belief has been around for a while.
“Men have made the world such a safe, comfortable place that women now have the time to bitch about not being considered our equals.” I’m not sure if the cliche he’s playing with is that men made everything and did everything so women are just whining when they demand a cut or that women’s problems really are trivial (I’ve covered both those in past USC posts, but I don’t have time to link today). But again, bull. As witness the constant efforts by women, even in the 21st century, to get the system to take rape seriously.
“Men cheat as a diversion. Women cheat to audition a replacement man. Thus female adultery is more likely to destroy families.” Okay, as someone who’s known a number of male cheaters (not to mention high-profile ones such as Newt Gingrich), I can state for a fact that’s bullshit. Apparently Mr. Dickinson’s a believer in the old sexual double-standard.
“A man who argues on behalf of feminism is a tragic figure of irony, like a Jewish Nazi.” Wow, issues much? I’d say it’s closer to a gentile who helped Jews than to siding with their oppressors (not very close because those gentiles took terrifying, horrifying risks. But more in that spirit).
•”Tech managers spend as much time worrying about how to hire talented female developers as they do worrying about how to hire a unicorn.” And there’s a classic, the assumption that women just Can’t Do X (or shouldn’t do X as the case may be).
Since the shitstorm broke, he’s been removed from his position. This sort of thing always leaves me with mixed feelings: I dislike the idea of removing someone because of their views, but he does sound like a horrible executive, at least when dealing with women at the company (and apparently he’s being fired less for his views than for them becoming so public: his boss admits to blocking Dickinson from his Twitter feed because he couldn’t stomach him).
Hat tip to Echidne who in the same post touches on James Taranto once again seeing Persecution of Men after George Zimmeman’s wife reported him to the cops for allegedly threatening her with a gun.