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I like her because she's one of the very very few 'famous' women in tech who's not Alexa or Siri (https://www.fastcompany.com/40547212/people-were-asked-to-na...).

Running companies and being featured in Vogue? Iconic.

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Do some reading for f*'s sake. Take a look at this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)

Marissa is a fake computer scientist. There are real female computer scientists out there, and very good ones at that.

The woman with a masters in computer science is a fake computer scientist?

Sigh. Regurgitating stuff you read is very different from being someone who actually knows how to build things. I don't think Marissa even pretends to know how to code at this point. I think in the past she did pretend to, which was sort of a problem.

> I don't think Marissa even pretends to know how to code at this point. I think in the past she did pretend to, which was sort of a problem.

I don't know what your problem is with her but holy shit I'm pretty sure she can code.

Prove it.

She has a masters in CS and was google employee #20, how about you prove she can't. You got some beef with her too, huh?

Don't tell me to do some reading for f*'s sake, I know about Margaret Hamilton and Grace Hopper. Mayer is current, successful, and stylish. I like her. I'm trying to explain to you why there might be a 'cult of personality' around her.

Why is being stylish so important in this context? If she were not stylish or conventionally attractive, does that detract from your opinion of her?

Being stylish is super important (to me) because not only is she a woman in tech - she's a stylish woman in tech. I hate the typical tech uniform of jeans, t-shirts, and hoodies, but felt I wouldn't get taken seriously if I looked 'pretty'. Marissa made that ok for me.

If she wore the typical tech uniform it wouldn't detract anything for me, but she wouldn't be iconic to me.

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