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Re: CNN feminist hero
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2018, 11:46:27 AM »
Stories like this paint a false reality that anyone can achieve success.  She obviously came from a well-off family. This isn't a rags to riches story. It's like those commercial trying to get girls into STEM. They're trying to sell science and technology as glamours.  The reality is that most these girls will end up spending much of their adult life sitting in a lab testing urine and blood samples.   I guess that can be rewarding but it's not what the commercials are selling.
Indeed... she is the female Mark Zuckerberg - another person with a massive leg-up to get famous and successful. 

Going to an exclusive prep school and then Harvard or Stanford when you can afford to do so puts you ahead of nearly the entire planet.

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Re: CNN feminist hero
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2018, 11:54:57 AM »
You're right -- the article basically lied when it called her self-made

If you are born into wealth, such that your parents can afford to send you to Prep School, and then an Ivy League college, that is hardly the common "rags" that 99.9% of Americans are dealt by default.



"Prep School"?/Re: CNN feminist hero
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2018, 10:01:00 AM »

If [...] your parents can afford to send you to Prep School, and then an Ivy League college, that is hardly the common "rags" that 99.9% of Americans are dealt by default.

What "Prep School"!?  I saw no mention of any "prep school" in the article (as limited by what was imbedded in your original posting).

You've repeatedly professed to be a "computer programmer", so you couldn't possibly be referring to Stanford, could you!?  Please say it ain't so, Matthew!

The Leland Stanford Junior [*] University is a private institution that's 1 in just a handful of premier universities for high technology in the world!  Especially for its engineering and applied-sciences orientation, which favors doing things, which is far more conducive to entrepreneurship than the excess of theorizing that dominates scholarship at some other prestigious universities, notably up the freeways at U.C. Berkeley.  And the Business School at Stanford is reputedly no slouch, either.

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Note *: The odd name that appears on the university's seal is the result of its founder: (silver? magnate) Leland Stanford, naming it in memory of his son: Leland Stanford Junior, who died during childhood.  Despite what might be inferred from its formal name, LSJU actually offers degree programs from undergraduate thro' doctorate, and has significantly greater enrollment for its graduate than undergraduate programs.

Re: "Prep School"?/Re: CNN feminist hero
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2018, 11:53:52 AM »
What "Prep School"!?  I saw no mention of any "prep school" in the article (as limited by what was imbedded in your original posting).

You've repeatedly professed to be a "computer programmer", so you couldn't possibly be referring to Stanford, could you!?  Please say it ain't so, Matthew!

The Leland Stanford Junior [*] University is a private institution that's 1 in just a handful of premier universities for high technology in the world!  Especially for its engineering and applied-sciences orientation, which favors doing things, which is far more conducive to entrepreneurship than the excess of theorizing that dominates scholarship at some other prestigious universities, notably up the freeways at U.C. Berkeley.  And the Business School at Stanford is reputedly no slouch, either.

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Note *: The odd name that appears on the university's seal is the result of its founder: (silver? magnate) Leland Stanford, naming it in memory of his son: Leland Stanford Junior, who died during childhood.  Despite what might be inferred from its formal name, LSJU actually offers degree programs from undergraduate thro' doctorate, and has significantly greater enrollment for its graduate than undergraduate programs.
The Blake School in Minneapolis. A very, very prestigious school in a... let's put it this way. It's in a part of Minneapolis where Matthew would live if he were the next CEO of Microsoft. Very wealthy and very expensive school.

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Re: CNN feminist hero
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2018, 04:41:42 PM »
For some reason, this article is still posted on CNNMoney.... I was thinking of posting it on CathInfo, and I had the same thoughts I had a few months ago as I read it.
Then I realized I had read the article before.

I was thinking about not just this lady, but how any "super successful" woman destroys her true happiness because
A) women don't like to "marry down" (it's human nature). 
B) If they do find a man to marry, it won't last, because they won't be happy or satisfied with their lame excuse for a man who isn't as successful as they are.
C) Any man content to let his wife be the primary breadwinner is a beta male cuck with no testosterone, and no woman will be long-term satisfied with such a "man". The successful woman will cheat on her beta husband as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
D) it's lonely at the top -- not a lot of single men with $3B companies in her league.

Women can give up family and put all their efforts into working for The Man, but A) most won't find high success, but will spend their days typing in spreadsheets and other banal, unsatisfying work B) those that do make it to the C-Suite will find it most unfulfilling C) they will ultimately suffer loneliness, depression, substance abuse, and end up living alone with a bunch of cats.