Business & Tech [UPDATE] New Top Hire With History of Sexist Quotes Leaves Apple After Uproar A startup star who wrote in his memoir that “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak” is Apple’s new ad executive, and Bay Area women who work at Apple would like a word.
SF News Sunday Links: Four San Jose Police Officers Placed On Leave Over Racist, Sexist Facebook Posts Four San Jose police officers are now on leave after posting racist and sexist comments on Facebook, American Airlines announced it will book flights to full capacity starting July 1, and Marin County — like San Francisco — has opted to push back certain reopenings over spikes in COVID-19 cases.
SF News Google Slapped With Gender Bias Suit, Might Owe Money to 21,000 Female Employees Ex-Googlers can do more than just found a Bodega startup that the internet loves to hate. Some ex-Googlers might force the search giant to cough up back pay and a hefty slice of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dominique Crenn Pens Brusque Note To Male-Dominated San Pellegrino Chef Competition: 'Please Evolve' Two-starred Michelin chef Dominique Crenn has a few words on social media this week for the San Pellegrino 2018 Young Chef competition, which just announced its juries in 21 regions around the globe.
SF News Racist, Sexist Internal Facebook Forum Surfaces As Zuck Vows To Remove All Hate Speech From Facebook It's tough out there for a Jewish CEO whose online empire has become a potent messaging and organizing tool for neo-Nazis and anti-semites. While the spread of online hate is not unique to
SF News Alt-Right Plans 'March on Google,' Doxxing Campaign To Defend Fired Brogrammer Here we see James Damore, who had himself a sad little two-person protest at Google’s Mountain View headquarters Thursday afternoon. (Mr. “Fired for Truth,” of course, fudged the truth on his resume.
SF News Video: That Fired Google Manifesto Guy Says His Feelings Are Hurt :( Fired Google engineer James Damore has defended his memo and says he feels "hurt" https://t.co/2NqmKuwsf6 pic.twitter.com/ezuxXp211X— Bloomberg (@business) August 10, 2017 Former Google engineer James Damore was
SF News Anita Hill Says Women Should Sue If They Want Silicon Valley To Get Less Sexist In a pointed op-ed in the New York Times today, Anita Hill, who these days is working as a plaintiffs' attorney at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, suggests that "It’s time women
SF News Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Controversial Anti-Diversity Memo The Google software engineer who suggested that women are biologically less well-suited to engineering work in an internal memo last week was fired on Monday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, "First, let me
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dominique Crenn Has Had It With Foodies' Sexist Rubbish San Francisco chef Dominique Crenn has had to endure a lot of sexism over the years, god bless her heart. A leader in the notoriously-female-unfriendly industry of putting food in an oven and
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Will Hold Leadership's 'Feet To The Fire' Over Sexual Harassment Allegations In April 2016, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that publisher and business mogul Arianna Huffington would join his company's board of directors, praising her "emotional intelligence," the kind women tend to have so
SF News Uber CEO Addresses Harassment, Discrimination Allegations In Company-Wide Email, Eric Holder To Review Investigation In former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's widely-circulated blog post "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber," what was "strange" was repeated alleged sexual harassment, and what was "very" was the company's
SF News Ex-Uber Engineer Says Company Is Full Of Sexual Harassment, Intimidation Yesterday, engineer Susan Fowler Tweeted, "I wrote something up this weekend about my year at Uber, and why I left," with a link to an essay titled, "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange
SF News Unofficial BART Notice Calls Out Racism, Etc., Tells Riders To 'Get Your S**t Together' Several official-looking but clearly unofficial BART notices observed by riders this morning call attention to the national uptick in angry, bigoted attacks since the election of Donald Trump in a campaign whose rhetoric
SF News Venture Capitalist Solves Sexism In Tech By Telling Women To Pretend They're Men Sexism, as we are repeatedly reminded, is particularly pervasive in the world of tech. And so a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed addressing discriminatory hiring practices against women in the industry might at
SF News Tech Exec Ponders Office Stripper Party, Says Female Employees 'Undesirable' Because They Might Get Pregnant That the tech industry is rife with sexism is not a shocker in 2016. That someone would openly admit to discriminating against women while simultaneously pondering the merits of having an in-office stripper
SF News Google Employees Declare 'Lady Day' To Mock Shareholder's Sexism Did you enjoy a nice Lady Day? That symbolic event was celebrated at Google at the end of last week in a concerted response to the sexist comments of an unnamed shareholder in
SF News Microsoft Claims 'Coordinated Attack' Turned Its Lovable Twitter Bot Racist Microsoft today issued an official statement regarding its wildly racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, 9/11 truther Twitter bot with the lovable name of "Tay." The machine learning, artificially intelligent bot was taken
SF News Microsoft's Tween Twitter Bot Instantly Goes Full Racist, 9/11 Truther Microsoft is doing damage control today after an artificial intelligence Twitter bot it created went totally batshit insane — tweeting vile racist, sexist, 9/11 truther, and other garbage at the world. The AI,
SF News Microsoft Reminds Us What Most Gamers Really Think Of Women At GDC Extremely disappointed @Microsoft and @Xbox hired women wearing these outfits to perform at @gdc. PLEASE RT. pic.twitter.com/JYFTTGdzQk— Brianna Wu, Yeah! (@Spacekatgal) March 18, 2016 Microsoft had an archaic message for
Arts & Entertainment Apple Exec Apologizes After Suggesting Women Can't Figure Out How To Listen To Music The head of Apple's new streaming service is apologizing this week, after he suggested that woman, perhaps because they are woman (?) are confused by how to find music to listen to. Record producer
SF News Kleiner Perkins Did Not Discriminate Against Ellen Pao Based On Gender, SF Jury Finds In a trial that has captivated and examined Silicon Valley — with thumbs refreshing Twitter feeds at a fever pitch this afternoon — a San Francisco jury has found that Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, which
misc Local Woman Calls Out Cat Callers in SF by Caleb Pershan Matter editor Leah Beckmann assembled a group of ten women in eight countries to tally and record instances of street harassment commonly referred to as cat calling (which, here, we’
SF News Obama Calls Kamala Harris 'Best-Looking Attorney General' Oy. On Thursday, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, showered California Attorney General Kamala Harris with praise. But a few bon mots he should have kept to himself. During a lunch
SF News Carmel Newspaper Labels Lingerie Models 'Sluts' After Local Resident Objects To Tequila & Cleavage Party A quaint little media brouhaha has popped up down in the seaside hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea (not to be confused with other Carmels, which are not by the sea). After a prudish local resident
