since when a mere PM also started getting categorized as an exec?
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Apple hires former Facebook exec Antonio Garcia Martinez to ads team
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#12Did HR at Apple hope nobody would google him? Is Apple’s diversity and inclusivity stance just marketing? How??
Re: Apple hires former Facebook exec Antonio Garcia Martinez to ads team
#13Here’s a fun quote from his book, via Chip Huyen’s blog ( https://huyenchip.com/2019/03/11/silicon-valley-misogyny.htm... ) > “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence, but the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, th…
"Come an epidemic plague [women] are useless baggage you'd trade for a box of shotgun shells." If he ends up in a hospital with covid he should have the guts to say that to the healthcare staff (70% female). That useless baggage of a group actually showed up to work, risked their health, and took care of people. If only they could be like this guy during an epidemic plague. You know, not "full of shit".
[Most Bay Area women]
He’s contrasting them with his girlfriend who he thinks would be very resourceful in the apocalypse.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Most women" could be replaced with "most people" and it would be a fair statement. The modern western man/woman has become physically weak and lacks the basic skills you'd want in those sorts of situations.
He didn't say that though — he singled out women. Also, what do you think about a person who says such a thing? Even if he had used most people I think many of us would assume that the author somehow believes that they themselves are not weak — are superior to most everyone else in the Valley. He has also claimed that many others in the Valley see him as self-deprecating. I sure don't see it in statements like the ab…
He’s comparing his girlfriend to Bay Area women. Not himself to women in general.
Re: Apple hires former Facebook exec Antonio Garcia Martinez to ads team
#15Did HR at Apple hope nobody would google him? Is Apple’s diversity and inclusivity stance just marketing? How??
Maybe they hired him because he’s good at his job, and they assumed he would behave?