Sometimes the con is there for all the world to see. That is how I think of Elizabeth Holmes. All the investors I've read about are men and I presume they found her attractive and nothing else mattered. I also find it interesting she clothed herself in the masculine "Steve Jobs" look and used a deep voice. So much for male logic and rationality.
Steve Jobs was likely exactly like Holmes! Except he had a buddy with the brains to deliver all the tech he promised - Steve Wozniak. If there was a Woz at Theranos they would likely be ringing bells at the opening of NYSE and being lauded as geniuses. The technology she promised is actually likely to be available within coming decades, but the investors were too greedy to do their due diligence as to how immature things were.
I suspect Holmes and fellow jailbirds like Bankman-Fried, Shkreli et al are likely the same as any other entrepreneur or finance-bro, they just broke the 11th commandment. Think of the robber barons of the late 19thC - crapulence of the rich is a historical constant, average people just got a break between WW2 and the oil crises. We are now just heading back to where we came from, sadly.
Such an illustrative case. The part that will always stay with me was her fake voice. Imagine the sustained effort to lie continually no matter what you are saying, just by lying about your own voice. I have a colleague with the exact same voice and a narrative about herself that is fashionably au courant. I always wonder what her speaking voice sounded like in high school.
Kudos on connecting the posthumanist dreamings of elites which partly drive the gender movement to the Theranos affair, I didn't make that connection.
I followed this story - but my take was a bit different. I was actually amused by the fact this woman got one over these venture capitalists and managed to lure them into throwing their money at her. I wonder if they threw the book so hard at her out of vindictiveness that a young woman pulled on them what they likely did their whole careers but for which they instead got lauded for their business acumen. 99% of these financial parasites get to keep their money and hob nob with likes of Elon.
Cheers. You’ve confused me with a radfem, I’m not a social constructionist, I’ve never denied gender is a useful way to describe social meanings and roles that cultures give to the sexes. Having said that I don’t have an I interest past that. I have read numerous evolutionary behaviourist type things, they just are not my interest.
No other movement is infantilised like feminism. Feminism is the political organisation of women for the interests of women and girls it’s not a religion.
Sometimes the con is there for all the world to see. That is how I think of Elizabeth Holmes. All the investors I've read about are men and I presume they found her attractive and nothing else mattered. I also find it interesting she clothed herself in the masculine "Steve Jobs" look and used a deep voice. So much for male logic and rationality.
Steve Jobs was likely exactly like Holmes! Except he had a buddy with the brains to deliver all the tech he promised - Steve Wozniak. If there was a Woz at Theranos they would likely be ringing bells at the opening of NYSE and being lauded as geniuses. The technology she promised is actually likely to be available within coming decades, but the investors were too greedy to do their due diligence as to how immature things were.
I suspect Holmes and fellow jailbirds like Bankman-Fried, Shkreli et al are likely the same as any other entrepreneur or finance-bro, they just broke the 11th commandment. Think of the robber barons of the late 19thC - crapulence of the rich is a historical constant, average people just got a break between WW2 and the oil crises. We are now just heading back to where we came from, sadly.
Such an illustrative case. The part that will always stay with me was her fake voice. Imagine the sustained effort to lie continually no matter what you are saying, just by lying about your own voice. I have a colleague with the exact same voice and a narrative about herself that is fashionably au courant. I always wonder what her speaking voice sounded like in high school.
Kudos on connecting the posthumanist dreamings of elites which partly drive the gender movement to the Theranos affair, I didn't make that connection.
I followed this story - but my take was a bit different. I was actually amused by the fact this woman got one over these venture capitalists and managed to lure them into throwing their money at her. I wonder if they threw the book so hard at her out of vindictiveness that a young woman pulled on them what they likely did their whole careers but for which they instead got lauded for their business acumen. 99% of these financial parasites get to keep their money and hob nob with likes of Elon.
Cheers. You’ve confused me with a radfem, I’m not a social constructionist, I’ve never denied gender is a useful way to describe social meanings and roles that cultures give to the sexes. Having said that I don’t have an I interest past that. I have read numerous evolutionary behaviourist type things, they just are not my interest.
No other movement is infantilised like feminism. Feminism is the political organisation of women for the interests of women and girls it’s not a religion.