Do these people know that Melinda was his employee?
If the price to pay to have a respected "geek" image is to have men essentially evirate themselves then good luck finding somebody willing to do that.
These are the worries of a society on the cusp of collapse:
Proliferation of gossip, shame a group because it dares to interact with an other group, having a "gotcha" attitude towards anybody and especially people in the public eye.
Is it so much to ask that men, especially those in power, not be so damn creepy? The work place is not Tinder. Sure he found Melinda at work and they got married. Yet he continued to seek out sexual partners from the same place while serving on the board. What the fuck?
“nerd” here is likely the affable if somewhat socially awkward Steve Wozniak type. Not the alpha male, Machiavellian type hell bent on using people and such.
His actions or personal failings or whatever you want to assign his personal failings to might have done harm to his philanthropy efforts which hurt millions of people that he and his wife have worked so hard to help.
> If the price to pay to have a respected "geek" image is to have men essentially evirate themselves then good luck finding somebody willing to do that.
I think most people would settle for "don't hang out with Jeffery Epstein", but you do you. (and yes, he met his wife at work. But hitting on a bunch of subordinates later on in life while still married to that wife is quite a different proposition)
Anyway, the point - as the article states! - is that Bill carefully crafted his persona after spending years as the Big Bad Microsoft Guy. He appeared on Ellen, did Reddit AMAs, etc. etc... he was as much a media personality as anyone else. Nothing wrong with that except that, yes, it might come back to bite you when facts emerge that don't fit the narrative you've been telling.
At the time it probably would have just been cynicism from myself, but I remember years back reading about all the charity work he was doing in Africa thinking to myself "I wonder what major scandal he's been a part of that requires this much good PR to counter-act".
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[ 0.18 ms ] story [ 26.3 ms ] threadIf the price to pay to have a respected "geek" image is to have men essentially evirate themselves then good luck finding somebody willing to do that.
These are the worries of a society on the cusp of collapse:
Proliferation of gossip, shame a group because it dares to interact with an other group, having a "gotcha" attitude towards anybody and especially people in the public eye.
Is it so much to ask that men, especially those in power, not be so damn creepy? The work place is not Tinder. Sure he found Melinda at work and they got married. Yet he continued to seek out sexual partners from the same place while serving on the board. What the fuck?
“nerd” here is likely the affable if somewhat socially awkward Steve Wozniak type. Not the alpha male, Machiavellian type hell bent on using people and such.
His actions or personal failings or whatever you want to assign his personal failings to might have done harm to his philanthropy efforts which hurt millions of people that he and his wife have worked so hard to help.
I think most people would settle for "don't hang out with Jeffery Epstein", but you do you. (and yes, he met his wife at work. But hitting on a bunch of subordinates later on in life while still married to that wife is quite a different proposition)
Anyway, the point - as the article states! - is that Bill carefully crafted his persona after spending years as the Big Bad Microsoft Guy. He appeared on Ellen, did Reddit AMAs, etc. etc... he was as much a media personality as anyone else. Nothing wrong with that except that, yes, it might come back to bite you when facts emerge that don't fit the narrative you've been telling.