” so it seems a little odd that a bunch of smart white men with an overwhelming majority are going to be so badly outflanked as to be beaten up on by a small minority of women”
Not really. The real work is getting done, often by white men. But the company may well be lecturing everyone from on high about how women are superior to men, and promoting women above their accomplishments in an attempt to catch them up. That is, after all, the definition of affirmative action.
In 1980 I applied for a seasonal job. The nearly all male government agency informed me they could not hire me until the Friday before the job started, and then ONLY if no women applied. I was told any woman applicant would be hired regardless of qualifications.
During my time in the military, we often had top-down mandatory training which had zero to do with getting the job done, but which made the biases of the generals very clear. At least back then we didn’t have the military telling women to ignore it if someone with a penis started showering with them!
In fact, look at America. You can publicly criticize white men all day long, but heaven help you if you point out someone is too fat for a job, or that almost no women meet the physical standards, or that “diversity” isn’t much of a strength when compared to competency.
The entertainment industry has a lot to answer for in portraying white men as bumbling idiots. In jobs requiring physical strength too (like much of the military), I can see the irritation factor in the social engineering. But this guy was sitting on his butt doing detail oriented work, which is definitely a thing in the female wheelhouse.
He filed a discrimination complaint with the national labor board, then put out a memo which seems to be begging to be fired, and was in fact fired. He can now go after his former employer under California law and doesn’t even have to prove that he was ever discriminated against. He’ll never have to work again if he pulls this off.
He will also so poison the well for the Republicans that Nancy Pelosi might end up speaker again.