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713 points greenburger | 1 comments | 16 Jun 25 13:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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d3vmax ◴[17 Jun 25 06:18 UTC] No.44296182[source]▶
Alice Newton-Rex, head of product at WhatsApp: “Alongside of private messaging, people were saying they wanted to hear more about topics, teams and organizations across WhatsApp.”

- I am pretty sure NO ONE asked to hear about more topics and organizations across whatsapp.

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camillomiller ◴[17 Jun 25 06:49 UTC] No.44296318[source]▶
How do one cope on a day to day basis with this level of blatant bullshittery, apart from justifying it with a golden salary? Is this person aware that her role is to enact a farce, or even engineer such farce?
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lynx97[dead post] ◴[17 Jun 25 08:09 UTC] No.44296769[source]▶
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Cipater ◴[17 Jun 25 09:19 UTC] No.44297178[source]▶
The idea that more diverse leadership leads to better outcomes doesn't mean women are incapable of wrongdoing. Nobody said women are perfect angels who can do no wrong. That's a strawman and you know it.

Be better, come on.

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lynx97 ◴[17 Jun 25 10:54 UTC] No.44297639[source]▶
> Be better, come on.

I am male. I can't "be better", I am already "the problem". Which is a reason why I am so fed up be the fight of the sexes. Its overboarding accusations on all sides. And I am not willing to "turn the other cheek" anymore.

> Nobody said women are perfect angels who can do no wrong

Ahem, the "believe all women" crowd did and do.

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1. gjm11 ◴[17 Jun 25 12:10 UTC] No.44298146[source]▶
Less of this culture-war nonsense here, please. Especially in a thread about something completely unrelated. (No, the fact that the exec in question is female doesn't make it related. If they'd been male then someone could equally-relevantly make the argument "see, this shows that we need more women in leadership".)