It's depressing that the article has to start with an exposition of her looks and dress.
I've never read an article about a male luminary that focuses so much on looks.
I've never read an article about a male luminary that focuses so much on looks.
“Marissa is surprisingly pretty in person,” says Valleywag blogger and editor Owen Thomas. “That in itself is a rarity in Silicon Valley, and you’d have to be naïve to think that doesn’t color people’s views of her.”
For gossip websites like Valleywag, Mayer is an easy mark... and (so they say)... uses her looks for publicity.
are followed in the next paragraph by:
Mayer manages 150 product managers, who direct the efforts of nearly 2,000 software engineers; levels criticism and praise with the same cool gaze; and is an arbiter of much of what goes before Page, cofounder Sergey Brin, and CEO Eric Schmidt, who trust her as their gatekeeper. Just about everything that goes on at the Mountain View company, which is more valuable than the U.S.’s three largest traditional media companies combined...
OP seems to be undermining the other publications which were undermining Mayer. The substance of the article refutes the pettiness of Vallywag et al.