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Re:"I’ve kept silent on the Apple situation; they broke sile... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:51PM (#27161871)
> “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.”

- His book.

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Re:"I’ve kept silent on the Apple situation; they broke sile... by MikeUt on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:17PM (#27162007)
> British Trader, on the other hand, was the sort of woman who would end up a useful ally in that postapocalypse, doing whatever work—be it carpentry, animal husbandry, or a shotgun blast to someone’s back—required doing.

- Also his book. So it's obvious both descriptions were written from experience, not gender-based prejudice.

But even without this passage, your quote only proves he has a low opinion of "most women in the Bay Area" - that does not translate to most women everywhere, and certainly not to all women.

Summarizing it as "considers people useless due to being born female" is a misreading so blatant I can only call it a lie.

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Re:"I’ve kept silent on the Apple situation; they broke sile... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:03AM (#27162245)
Why include the word "women" at all, though? Replace it with "jews" or "gays" and see how it reads. The fact that he chose to single out Bay Area women, specially, implies he doesn't hold men to the same standard.

If I were a woman working for Apple who didn't happen to be into carpentry or animal husbandry, I really wouldn't want to work for this guy.

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Re:"I’ve kept silent on the Apple situation; they broke sile... by MikeUt on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:17AM (#27162320)
> Why include the word "women" at all, though?

Because that description was specifically to highlight how different his then-girlfriend was from them.

> Replace it with "jews" or "gays" and see how it reads.

"Most gays in the Bay Area are lame, but my current boyfriend is great." - seems fine?

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