[HN Gopher] Apple hires former Facebook exec Antonio Garcia Mart...
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       Apple hires former Facebook exec Antonio Garcia Martinez to ads
       team
        
       Author : Doubleguitars
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-05-12 20:01 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.imore.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.imore.com)
        
       | mandeepj wrote:
       | since when a mere PM also started getting categorized as an exec?
        
       | Cenk wrote:
       | Here'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, they'd become precisely
       | the sort of useless baggage you'd trade for a box of shotgun
       | shells or a jerry can of diesel."
       | 
       | I'm also not sure if his stance on privacy will fit in well at
       | Apple:
       | 
       | > "Most people don't care about privacy. Media elites care about
       | it, underemployed Eurocrats care about it. And the entire
       | privacy-industrial complex -- there's an entire set of very loud
       | voices who are constantly beating the drum and building media
       | careers around this."
        
         | michelb wrote:
         | This guy sounds like the worst culture fit at Apple.
         | https://huyenchip.com/2019/03/11/silicon-valley-misogyny.htm...
        
         | MyHypatia wrote:
         | "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".
        
         | gccs wrote:
         | "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.
        
           | JKCalhoun wrote:
           | 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
           | above.
        
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