SWISH SWISH

WITH HER NEW PUBLICATION BURN BOOK, OUT JOURNALIST KARA SWISHER EXTENDS HER REIGN AS THE PREEMINENT HISTORIAN OF TECH — AND TAKES AIM AT THE TOXIC MASCULINITY POWERING THE INDUSTRY

by daniel scheffler

“LIKE TRUMP SAYS ALL THE TIME, ‘I AM YOUR WARRIOR’ — BUT WHAT’S MOST INTERESTING FOR ME, AND I SAY THIS IN THE BOOK, THEY PRETEND TO BE FIGHTING AGAINST THE MAN, TO BE OF THE PEOPLE — BUT THEY ARE THE MAN, THESE RICH PEOPLE ARE ALL THE MAN.” Kara Swisher doesn’t like all the things lesbians are allegedly supposed to like — that’s if you listen to all the stereotypes. She loves a nice hotel (like the luxurious Aman chain), and she appreciates fashionable apparel. But really, she just laughs at the tropes anyway. And that’s the Swisher I spent time with: droll, thoughtful, frabjous, straightforward, and self-reflecting, all in real time. Throughout her career, the out media maven didn’t need a newsy item to be in the headlines, because…

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