China girl, pt. 2: sex and violence - how the psychosexual pathology of American defense paired with China's 45% female workforce builds America's future defeat

Or how we built a $110 billion boys' club talking about vertical erector launchers and other reasons why women leave defense while China arms itself using half their workforce

Part 2’s subsections

1. All we have is words, all we have is worlds - defense tech’s sexualized discourse

2. The language that kills careers - from discourse to documented harm

3. From words to harassment to diversity - what research shows about homogeneous vs. diverse teams

4. The innovation cost of homogenous thinking - when exclusion becomes economic sabotage

We’ve built a system so perfectly calibrated to exclude women that it’s practically art. While we’re sitting here admiring our magnificent self-sabotage, China has massively increased their participation of women in defense tech through both policies and institutional support, which is how they’re building the weapons that will make ours in America obsolete with a workforce fueled in part by 46% women.

The introduction to this series and Part 1 established China’s competitive advantages from having millions of women participating in their defense tech pipeline which is now producing 10x our drone fleet, closing AI gaps in 13 months that sho…