REALITY ITSELF IS SEXIST: An ‘Ether Of Sexism’ Doesn’t Explain Gender Disparities In Science And Tech. “According to ‘ether’ sexism, parents, teachers, and our entire culture create — often unknowingly — a noxious miasma that contributes to a systematic and early barrage of gendered, subliminal messages. This effectively discourages women from doing anything that doesn’t fit with hoary notions of femininity. Does an invisible, ineffable fog of oppression truly engulf modern American women? The evidence is increasingly strained and far-fetched.”

Let’s say that it’s true. Who cares? If men can control women through such a clever conspiracy, then maybe men deserve all those STEM jobs and women don’t.

It turns out, then, that the “ether” theory of sexism is itself an example of reverse reverse sexism, a subset of reverse reverse bigotry, whereby an ideology of victimization ends up harming the very groups it intends to privilege.