That's not what I meant. I did not say "Heterophobia exists because trans- and gay people oppress cis- and straight people", I said "Bigotry exists regardless of whether the bigots have the institutional power to oppress the targets of their hatred."

: That said, when people see opposition and hatred all the time (whether it's
: really like that or not), can you blame them? I mean, of course you can
: blame them, but it's understandable to want to hate right back and respond
: with hate.

I understand.
But I still blame them.

: Interesting, changing that word makes you feel that way, which implies as it
: stands it doesn't.

Then you're reading too much into it.
Bradford's article on its own is annoying and fairly stupid, but the "Whites are oppressors" message has traction thanks to intersectionalism. The switch from "White cis-males" to "Jews" nicely recontextualizes the issue from a social problem to a personal problem, and also pushes the article into Joseph Goebbels territory.

: The reasoning for the case you bring up seems dumb, but your interpretation
: of it seems off.
: I keep seeing this, and with all due respect, I don't know why people don't
: seem to get to get, and I also don't get why no one ever seems to explain
: it.

You get a job because you're qualified for it. Not because you balance out the company's EEOC form, not because you have the right politics, not because you glued your lips to the boss's ass, not because the boss is comfortable with your skin color or what you do in your bedroom. That is how it should work.

What she did was political grandstanding. She went out there in front of Paizo's community and asked them to skew their hiring standards to help minorities. If Paizo ignored her but hired a woman anyway because she was qualified, there would always be that doubt that she was hired because of her sex. And that woman (Wish I could remember her name) would have trumpeted it as Paizo making a stand for equality, even if Paizo didn't want to get involved in politics in the first place. If they hired a man, I can see her posting a statement congratulating the new employee but professing disappointment that Paizo isn't working to further equality.

The messageboards on Paizo's website are their lifeblood. Paizo may sell gamebooks in hobby shops and bookstores, but the bulk of their sales and their product feedback come through that forum. That website is where Pathfinder Society is managed. That's where many of their hardcore, paying customers frequent. And she put the company on the spot in front of those customers.

Like I said, it's like asking someone if they'd beaten their wife lately. Even if the answer is a solid 'no', damage is done.

That was a statement that should have been delivered in private. Or better yet, she should have highlighted minority tabletop game developers who are creative, talented, and in need of a job at a big-name publisher.

: Seriously? People do say the very same things about Jews, and Muslims, and
: black people, and literally every other group. Some things are less
: intuitive in certain combinations so you don't see them as much, but you
: can rest assured every racial, religious, sexual, etc. insult you can
: think of has been applied to every group with more than a couple thousand
: people in it. If you didn't know that, you've lived a sheltered life,
: especially as far as the Internet is concerned.

It's not that I've lived a sheltered life. It was simple exasperation that the people fighting for fairness and equality and representation were resorting to ad-hominems and gross generalizations.

: ¯\°_°/¯ Not everyone's brave when it comes to their physical safety, even if
: they're fine with every manner of verbal attacks and their name becoming a
: punchline. (That was a shrug BTW.)

Or maybe she felt that forcing people to go through a search, at cost to the university, before listening to her speech would put them in the proper siege mentality. Shannon Watts would kill for that kind of opportunity.