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Comment by bshimmin | Hacker News Reader

There are some truly strange and incongruous turns of phrase in this article - "Google's human resources boss, a serious woman with bangs named Stacey Sullivan", "Finally Rosing, a bald man in glasses, began to speak", "Though he was an appealing presence with above-average height and nearly black hair", etc.

It strikes me the author would far rather be writing Mills & Boon novels than articles for Business Insider.

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I just deleted the comment about the bangs. Really does read awkwardly.

I should clarify that I didn't think the article badly written - just not quite in the style I'm used to from a publication like Business Insider. That said, I probably haven't read many other long-form pieces on there.

Others here clearly enjoyed the writing style very much!

You seem to have a very high opinion of the Business Insider

I enjoyed the piece and it's long form content and flow - some of the descriptions of the people (of people I'd met, people I'd heard of many times and people I'd never known existed) were nice additional things in the story.

"Woman with bangs." I cringe any time I see a writeup of a female engineer or executive where attention is drawn to her hairstyle, clothes, or shoes. It's unnecessary and undignified.

Do you also cringe every time you see a write-up of a male engineer or executive where attention is drawn to his hairstyle, clothes, or shoes?

Example from the same article: "Finally Rosing, a bald man in glasses, began to speak"

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