Jolie O'Dell is like fingernails on the blackboard for me, too, but ironically this clip of her includes none of the things that bug me.
In other forums, she is so often in a mood, rolling her eyes and making snarky asides about how we all know how sexist most developers are or how racist some conference was, or how over-the-hill some 50-something CEO is for not realizing that "young people today all [think Jolie's way]", followed shortly thereafter by "speaking out" against stereotyping. Her stereotyping of male developers or older CEOs or "corporations" apparently doesn't count as stereotyping, because stereotyping is bad, and it's not bad to criticize designated perpetrator groups. Anything that she can find a way to interpret as non-praise of a member of a designated victim group or the group as a whole seems to demand that Jolie "speak out," roll her eyes and sigh, and "not put up with it."
And yet in this video, she's not castigating the tech industry for political infractions but just trying to learn some tech herself. She's a lot more likeable in this role.
Your characterization of Jolie is unprofessional. She's a fair, fact-driven, passionate journalist. I've met her in person twice and I can vouch for this.
"Unprofessional"? I might consider a media pundit who accuses people on camera of political violations, sighs, rolls her eyes, shakes her head, and often has to have some of her snarky comments bleeped for profanity to be unprofessional. Or maybe just annoying. But an audience member who finds the pundit annoying and says so is not violating any professional code.
And unless she's different off camera than on, then the fact that you met her "in person" twice wouldn't make any difference. I've seen her express her opinions on camera more than twice, which is enough to make up my own mind.
I'm interested in useful technological insights, not in her hunt for political offenders, so she's not a pundit I look forward to hearing from.
Oh, I've seen the other sides. But that's the point. This video seems completely faked. It's clearly an advertisement, and it's not representative of Jolie's typical personality, and at the same time I feel that if I were a woman in tech, that this video would bother me (any of you care to comment?).
I don't like being lied to, especially not by journalists.
In other forums, she is so often in a mood, rolling her eyes and making snarky asides about how we all know how sexist most developers are or how racist some conference was, or how over-the-hill some 50-something CEO is for not realizing that "young people today all [think Jolie's way]", followed shortly thereafter by "speaking out" against stereotyping. Her stereotyping of male developers or older CEOs or "corporations" apparently doesn't count as stereotyping, because stereotyping is bad, and it's not bad to criticize designated perpetrator groups. Anything that she can find a way to interpret as non-praise of a member of a designated victim group or the group as a whole seems to demand that Jolie "speak out," roll her eyes and sigh, and "not put up with it."
And yet in this video, she's not castigating the tech industry for political infractions but just trying to learn some tech herself. She's a lot more likeable in this role.