Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer turns the other cheek

JEEZ, are people so overtly sensitive these days? Ladies, if you hate this world so much, feel free to build a spaceship and zoom off somewhere else. Men get sexist comments towards them, but we don't publish/blog/twitter/FB it every time our "feelings are hurt".

PS: Since when is being called "attractive" a BAD THING? WTF? I could understand if that guy said "Oh man, I would love for you to face-sit me all day and night" or "T!TS or GTFO".

I'm offensive, and I find this feminist!

Before I retired from public service (male btw) I was constantly being hit on by the ladies. I was getting daily offers to be their baby's dad, go for nooner quickie, had my ass pinched and slapped, pecks on the cheek, female bodies rubbed against me.

I had a permanent erection but I accepted it as a compliment. I also understood it because I am a hell of a good looking guy and obvious bait for the babes.

Going out at night to a bar was like visiting a buffet; I had my pick of any of the ladies in the place and it was even easier because some of them were drunk.

There aren't too many good looking people in the world so the ones that are should enjoy the moment.

Are society is soo... behind in there times it's unreal. Respect is now unheared of. This applies to men also.Peaple have no self respect and its not about being sensitive. It about "savoir vivre"

Absurd how anyone can defend this action in this setting. The remarks are NOT appropriate in a business setting, especially in a formal public setting like an annual meeting. Im not sure the remarks would be even considered appropriate if delivered at the hors-d'oeuvres/bar often given after this type of meeting, but Im sure Ms Mayer can handle herself in either forum. There are obvious "pros" being a woman in a male dominated arena, especially being an attractive woman. Then there is the "cons" as demonstrated here. But if Ms Mayer was to be truthful, Im sure she would admit in her circumstance the pros far outweigh the cons, and if she had the option to be ugly or male in her business career. she would pass on that option thank you very much.
As Im a male, I have witnessed a few "inappropriate remarks" made in various forums from the after-event party, to the customer meeting, to the board room, etc, and have never commented on them for various reasons, ie., made by a client, or a superior, or people i dont know real well. I have however, gone to a female counterpart AFTER a meeting to offer my support if she decided to press an issue on a remark that she obviously didnt appreciate. Her response was "Why drag down both our careers here just because Mr Z cant get .... (a synonym for a woman)". As I had almost 20 years in this company at the time, I appreciated her outlook, honesty, and candor about the situation and its possible effects on our futures. I have since retired, she has moved on to a competitor and doing very well, and the MGR who made the remark(s) is now the GM of the whole place, although he too is retiring at the end of the year.
I am still acquaintances with both, and never broach the subject with either. I try to live with "its water under the bridge or into each life a little rain must fall", but have to admit that if those types of remarks became commonplace at work that I would possibly (probably!) act different. I felt uncomfortable too being there. The situations for remarks like that to be accepted in a business environment are so few and far between that the only common-sense thing is to stop them all.

@France Raymond...
You're probably French just like me but before posting something on the internet, try the auto correct feature. You obviously don't know a lot about English.

She said it. One can interfere that South European went bankruptcy. What the propound of her speech? Is it feminism or powerful head of office? She has to choose whether to be respectful CEO or bitch to conduct herself that way. Poor baby who's going born through this ugly whom.

Think you for your comment. Does she have to say what seem to be inappropriate.

I may be old school
But I don't care, those kind of comments are totaly uncalled for.
I have in the past called out my boss on stuff like that.
These ass holes (male and female) that think that is funny would be fired

@ Boozer Man, How can you tell you are good looking through all that slime?

I am so beaten down by the me generation. Respect is either earned or by title. No self-respecting person would make that comment. The problem is that the moral lines that existed some time ago
have been obliterated by social media and popular behaviour in videos and music. Men who appreciate women do not diminish their achievements, but rather celebrate them. Women can be better or worse than men given their background, but we have gone backwards due to no accountability. We need to make people who act and say less than what every human being deserves to be held accountable for their words. Music said it best, "Words are like weapons they wound sometimes". Human beings left to their own devices become animal in their thoughts and can turn them into action. Wake up and smell the coffee, we are the majority not the minority but we rarely get a voice because it is not controversial enough. The men and women who think they are the cats meow, remember after the looks fade your shallow existence will be reflected only by your bank account.

When prefaced with "i'm a dirty old man", anyone with a mature thinking mind would know it was an inappropriate remark. I think the oversensitivity is certainly an issue at times in our culture. However, in a meeting, with everyone as your audience, he should have been expected to apologize to everyone in the room for his immaturity. Thus causing him the uncomfortable embarrassment he deemed acceptable to deliver to someone else.

Is not ok for the industry to view film and arts in respective collection agreements and live contact on the set in hollywood? or is the pool of country building democratic taught, to hard noded conservative measurments in what is known as today, eat em up and spit em out? or does our bully campain here fit in the social pools to mind touge, cheeky little fellow show downs with each other and incinuate a class action, a real geneuine scar tissue that seems to lesson the country of promises, emphises of how delicate the pools can become, and as they grow up into a world of events to match wit, sound and occupations, it seems law to hold the human rights musum in Frendliy Manitoba is a paid prospect of others misfortunate events no matter what stifled ment to any classes in the colonies, of couse we are the colonies are we not? any ways lets hope both can have the rights to throw though interpretations of each others stance or just plainly in view for all to be viewed as any thing the presention to fit ones mind, and this is better than time travel. I don't think it is justifed to hold some one accountable on some e;eses interpretation set forth onto the media front pages of bold letters to pattern of thoughts, do I? hmmm needs work.

I like france raymond, does owning wors to such plight cause the registration on how wording, pronouciations, and yes the charecters that become trade incetive behind the words I English to once apon a time in today, the patent offices are closed on Sundays, and yes, the owned measurements to say destinction accuracy is believed, to ponder owned charecter measured out by laws handed to any who will, one day be taxed to use specific words owned, and maybe one or too of the classes involved will have to copy right the meaning of commerce and language barriers other than what we describe as corporate investments, to what? tounge? Eye? sword?. woos me, tis was not love that broke graciano's heart, a love never mined to hold, but mr better tons play to life began early in the stories we conquered to see just how we act with out a mirro in front of us all. And i like france raymonds wording.

@Boozer Man

Sorry dude, I call bullshit on your arrogant and conceited bragging

Of course she didn't react. If you react your career is over. You get labelled as "unstable" "emotional" or "bitchy" and people question your existence. You either learn to deal with the fact that you won't get treated as an equal, or you quit... because without proof on paper (e.g. emails) HR cannot or will not do a damn thing about it.

Sorry, I would not have let it go so easily. I would have told him that he was right on all counts!

@ Boozer Man -- OBVIOUSLY you're a legend in your OWN MIND !! Now go play with YOURSELF !!

Nobody would talk to Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Weiner that way because they are not attractive.
People are tooooo sensitive today. Polis is an idiot who is not worthy of Mayer’s time or energy.
What is missing from today’s society is a SENSE OF HUMOR. Lighten up! BTW, I am female.

@Boozer Man

LMAO...Yah in your dreams u r all that buddy. what a freakin fairytale

Someone that worked for her should have taken the guy outside and kicked his head in.

I am 49 year old woman. I have worked in a male dominated profession for 30 years. I get hit on or comments made to me all of the time. My take on it is....get over it. Feminist or not.....grow a thicker skin, realize who you are dealing with and move on. Obviously Mr. Polis is an attention seeking misogynist. Focus on business...not tacky behaviour. Feel sorry for those individuals that try to throw you off of your game by being sexist. They are just poor individuals that are threatened by the success of others. People like that obviously do not know any better.

The idiot has now identified himself as a loud-mouthed, inappropriate old fool, with a pitiful 2000 shares of stock in a huge company. His remark was inappropriate, but, I suspect, intended as a 'humorous' warm-up to his complaints. After all, he didn't call her a crook, or incompetent. At a different meeting, he might have made a remark about Donald Trump's hair.
He's made his remark, he said what he came to say about the stock performance and dividends, he had his 15 minutes of fame, thanks to the Interweb.
Now he can hop back down into well-deserved obscurity. Doubtless his friends and family are either appalled, or going 'That's George, alright,whether admiring or appalled'.
Calling him out on his remarks would just have taken the focus off whatever most people were there to discuss. He said one lousy sentence, any reply she made would have been a) short and rude or b) long and off-topic.
Best response: make a note of his name on her Blackberry for future reference, and move the meeting along. There is nothing she could have said that would have been useful.

Well done and well said Deb, altho obviously you never met Boozer ... lol (sic)

I like Judy, Deb and Boozers attitude. Well this guy was definitely low end to have to resort to the sexist thing to get attention. Many politicians and celebs are working the same deal and making big points, so there are your role models.

betsy has it right also.

It's not because she's a woman, it's because she's hot. We don't expect executives to be hot. If the CEO looked like Brad Pitt, he'd have his own entourage of female (and male) fans. Sexism charges are a waste of my time, because they aggrandize the problems of every cohort but mine - young white men. The old white guys may have it made, but I have to slug it out harder than you ever will. And no one's passing around a donation cup for my cohort, they're all too busy worrying about some other minority group.