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Jimmy Iovine Criticized After Making Controversial Comments About Women

It's when the brain detects dead air, that the mouth seems to say bizarre crap, and gets the human into trouble...

He used bad (sexist) analogies. From someone who has a habit of doing that, I can understand, but he *should* have corrected himself immediately. I mean, *if* he realized it. If he didn't realize it, that would be the troubling part. If 'corporate' had to let him know he did that, he's got an issue...
 
TechZeke said:
Lets be real, part of the reason he apologized is because he knew Tim Cook would've kicked his ass over it. Tim is huge on diversity and being PC, and Jimmy realizes he also represents Apple now, not just beats.
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If that is the case then Tim Cook is part of the problem not the solution.
 
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Eraserhead said:
Blaming liberals for political correctness when conservatives are no better is ridiculous.
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I've not met one liberal with a set of balls, so at least us conservatives have that. We're cutthroat, at least in my circle. Even conservative ladies have a hefty pair.

See how easy it was to be inclusive?

But seriously, it all boils down to liberals at the tip of PC. Trump's PC tirades are certainly due to getting tired of liberals castrating a free voice, free to offend, free to speak what everybody already thinks... The voice of the silent majority. My partner is Mexican and makes "beaner," jokes all the time. Hilarious? You bet, for both of us. Offensive? You bet. I wouldn't have life any other way.
 
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FieldingMellish said:
Iovine looks better with a hat. His head's too misshapen for him to look cool walking around bald.
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This is the only actually offensive comment in this thread; humiliation of baldness seems to be encouraged. If he was fat and you called him out on it, everyone would come to his defense on fat shaming.

So why is it OK for you to spit in the face of alopecia?
 
kildraik said:
I've not met one liberal with a set of balls, so at least us conservatives have that. We're cutthroat, at least in my circle. Even conservative ladies have a hefty pair.

See how easy it was to be inclusive?

But seriously, it all boils down to liberals at the tip of PC. Trump's PC tirades are certainly due to getting tired of liberals castrating a free voice, free to offend, free to speak what everybody already thinks... The voice of the silent majority. My partner is Mexican and makes "beaner," jokes all the time. Hilarious? You bet, for both of us. Offensive? You bet. I wouldn't have life any other way.
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Depends on how you define PC. Conservatives got over excited about who uses which bathroom and who marries who. And they get offended by Muslims saying mean things about them.

I'm not really clear how liberals are any worse.
 
The problem is people are just sensitive these days.

And when did girls stop sitting around talking about boys?! They still do it!
 
Eraserhead said:
Depends on how you define PC. Conservatives got over excited about who uses which bathroom and who marries who. And they get offended by Muslims saying mean things about them.

I'm not really clear how liberals are any worse.
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I would admit conservatives are intolerant. I think that's what you mean; not politically correct. Tolerance is a whole different game; taking things in stride. Folks don't have to be accepting, embracing, or like what people do, but humans should have tolerance.

Also, people can get offended. There's nothing wrong with being offended. I'm offended about sloths and morons, but what can I do?

Nothing.

Which is exactly what happens if somebody is simply offended.

Nothing.
 
sudo1996 said:
How is this supposed to be offensive? Also, I don't really know what he means. Around here, girls always make the playlists, and the guys had better not complain about it.
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I didn't read anything offensive out of it... but that's me. I understand why he feels he needs to apologise tho.

I remember those days. In the late 90's I used to burn mix 'CDs' for girls... ah the innocent times.
 
devinci99 said:
I didn't read anything offensive out of it... but that's me. I understand why he feels he needs to apologise tho.

I remember those days. In the late 90's I used to burn mix 'CDs' for girls... ah the innocent times.
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Nah. the innocent time was when we made mix tapes for girls.
 
Can someone explain to me what the issue is? I listened to the interview and am having an extremely difficult time seeing what the issue is. It's incredibly obvious he was talking about the specific scenario he created for the commercial, and not about women in general. Can't a creator create a scenario? Should we take a Dyson Vacuum commercial and say it's a statement saying all women should stay home and vacuum?!? I honestly don't get it in the least.

Seriously, you have to be a complete and utter moron to think he said something about "women" in general. Poor guy, to get lambasted like that for absolutely nothing.
 
Mac'nCheese said:
Nah. the innocent time was when we made mix tapes for girls.
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While I give mad respect to Gen X, give Gen Y some respects! It was difficult burning CDs! You had to get a 'puter with a CDR burner. Not like every 586/Pentiums back then came with cd burners!

(though I did made a few tapes for girls in the 5th grade. hehehehe)
 
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Small White Car said:
I am honestly curious why.

I'm a dude. This guy thinks I'm better at finding music and you're worse at it.

Because of our genders alone.

That honesty doesn't bother you? Do you think it's true?
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I didn't take that he was contrasting women and men rather than just pointing out specifics of women and how to possibly help a segment of them. He used words in the wrong context and went down the wrong rabbit hole but I understood what he meant.
 
kildraik said:
I've not met one liberal with a set of balls, so at least us conservatives have that. We're cutthroat ...
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I'm sorry ... is being "cutthroat" supposed to be a good thing?

Eraserhead said:
Depends on how you define PC. Conservatives got over excited about who uses which bathroom and who marries who. And they get offended by Muslims saying mean things about them.
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And they hate it when you say "Happy Holidays."

Apparently it's not cutthroat enough.
 
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Mac'nCheese said:
So did Jared and look what happened to him.
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Don't know where that came from... and how it went the wrong way fast.

What does me making mix tapes back when I was in 5th grade (when I was 10 years old for other girls in my class) have anything to do with Jared?
 
Jim Dalrymple went on an Apple Music rant on Twitter today. He even said "anything is far better than Apple Music". It's pretty bad when Apple loses someone like Jim Dalrymple on a music product.

Google just hired the do-founder of VMware to run their cloud business. Apple spends $3B on crappy headphones and Jimmy Iovine.

According to John Gruber the Beats deal was all Eddy Cue. He was the one advocating it inside the company. I think Eddy needs to go or at least be demoted. Cook should bring someone in who knows how to run services and gets the cloud.
 
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Clearly we need a Twitter hashtag and maybe some colorful Facebook profile photos to show them who's boss!

#yesallwomen
 
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