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because people are desperately wanting her to be successful, not because they love yahoo, but to prove that women can run companies.

also, any criticism of a woman in tech is automatically labelled "misogynist" by the internet hate machine known as Tumblr (which Yahoo owns), so where she might get more criticism, people are giving her a free pass.

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I have trouble believeing that you can back any of this up. It seems extremely unlikely to me that the number of people who want to "prove that women can run companies" outnumbers the number who want to prove that women can't.

Anyone who has any background in the subject knows of the many women who do successfully run companies - they know that there is no need to prove anything of this sort.

There are other companies that have already proven that (GM, HP, eBay)

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