The "born to" comment is laughably bad and obnoxious to say to a group of folks generally working retail and judging by the average age of the Apple employees I see in retail unlikely to stick with the company very long.
But let's set that aside. The hate for Angela displayed in this thread and elsewhere is kind of predictable. Basically anytime a woman gets a powerful business or political position, she is going to elicit a larger amount of hate than a man in the same role doing the same thing. She is going "rub people the wrong way". They won't be able to put their finger on it. The presentation isn't going to sit right. Something will be off. Many folks will deny that it is because she is a woman, but I've just seen this happen too many time to buy it. Women in high profile positions just become a more polarizing figure. And I think this is even more the case to the generally male online community in forums like this.
But the "born to" comment was terrible. Still it is just one snippet of one sentence. And I think Apple has a better sense than most how important the Watch release is. Not because Apple needs it to make money, but because of how disruptive it is. Anecdote, showed a co-worker my Apple Watch at the office yesterday and she literally said, "I'm thinking about buying a Rolex, but maybe I will just get one of those instead." This device is going to be a big deal.
No, it's just the white knight in you ignores the attacks against men because you think they don't need you to come to their rescue.
Tim gets beat on ALL the time. The other retail guy got beat up pretty good. Mr.skuemorphic got ripped to shreds. The map guy got thrown to the wolves and people love to call Jony fat.
Seriously dude, why the gender based blinders?
What you are witnessing is the progression of women from not being treated with kid gloves and instead are subject to the same level of criticism that men are. This is one of the outcomes of gender equality and you have to accept the good with the bad.
Not many other Apple folks in power have said things like selling watches are what you were born to do. This is WAAAAY up there on the flub list so I understand how you think shes getting special attention, but it is an appropriate response for a darn dumb thing to say.