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I don't know anything about Holmes.

But if she was a psychopath, then this would track perfectly. Completely unphased and unstressed about the world of chaos she's created around herself.

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I always found her to be… uncanny in photos and videos; intense in a disconcerting way. She looks like a perfectly normal CEO but there is something in her expression that suggests she doesn’t approach social interactions like most people. Like she is very calculating and works on a predator-prey worldview. Maybe I’m biased because I only ever looked her up after the allegations against her and said to myself “yup, that’s a psychopath”

The thousand-zuck stare.

There was reporting on how she intentionally changed her voice in public and one time got caught with her real voice. That to me validates her calculating predator-prey view.

That I could rationalize away: women CEOs facing sexism might benefit from acting more ‘corporate’ and dominant, and having a deeper voice is one tool in that arsenal. Good posture, firm handshakes and eye contact, etc. But yea, going to such lengths all the time would require insane amounts of masking that a neurotypical probably couldn’t manage.

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