Woman in Tour de France follow-up(April Fools Joke)

[MartianDestiny]

We're her potential customers, for pete's sake. Would senior manager/executive at Apple Computing pull a joke on millions of unknown, faceless customers? I think she's lacking business marketing judgement.

Google does it every year, and puts significant amounts of efforts into their rouses.

The billions they roll in tend to suggest it ain't hurting them at all...

(and no, they aren't the only company I've heard of doing similar)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes

[TsPoet]

OK, so re-reading the "joke" and realizing it was written by the woman named in the joke makes it totally different for me. IFF it had gone to friends and family anyway.
That would be like me sending a completely serious email to my mom saying I was going to run in the Boston Marathon this year and explaining that a running coach had seen me out with my dogs and thought I was a "natural", etc etc.
That's just a joke about myself, not about women...

[mariacycle]

thanks adventure girl!

[Desert Tortoise]

It was meant as a joke, not the greatest. She did not have bad intentions and her apology seems well intended. Long but well intended.

As a female and minority I'm a little more sensitive to how people say things about gender and race. Oak had a good point about insert women/female with fat or Black and people might respond differently. I frequently come across this when people make flip remarks about my race especially because I do not have the stereotypical looks of my race. When I jokingly repeat the comment replacing it with a characteristic of theirs, they pause. Inside it really bugs me but I do my best not to get angry (and it's not always worth it.) I try to be nice with no edge in my voice or mannerisms and use it as an opportunity to show what it really means.

That said, I will not boycott Trek or anything like that. But I will not go out of my to buy their products. Obviously her actions support women's sports. I applaud her for that. But for all the things she listed, something about it tells me she doesn't get the point of why some of us found it offensive.

Ok, I too am ready to move on.