Common
09-06-2018, 12:29 PM
Steve Jobs would never have survived #MeToo.
The myth he built — a difficult man whose genius made him so and justified any personal failings — has finally been leveled.
“Small Fry (https://www.amazon.com/Small-Fry-Lisa-Brennan-Jobs/dp/0802128238?tag=nypost-20?tag=nypost-20),” the new memoir by his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, depicts a sadistic man and a horrible father: sexually inappropriate, verbally and psychologically abusive, pitiless and cheap — with his time, money, emotions, attention.
This was a man who liked to make little girls cry.
Brennan-Jobs, now 40, opens her book with a deathbed scene unlike any other. There is her father, a titan of the 20th century, emaciated and unable to walk, propped on a hospital bed in his study. She goes into the restroom and finds an expensive bottle of rosewater face mist. She spritzes herself. She is trying to make every interaction, possibly their last, perfect.
“I’d given up on the possibility of a grand reconciliation, the kind in the movies,” she writes. “But I kept coming anyway.”
After hugging her father goodbye, his bones protruding through waxy skin, he calls for her.
“Lis?”
“Yeah?”
“You smell like a toilet.”
While promoting her book, Brennan-Jobs has, poignantly, sought to excuse scenes like these. “Just to be clear: I did, in fact, smell like a toilet,” she tweeted on Aug. 15. She has expressed fear that readers might not appreciate the love she still has for her father or realize she has forgiven him. Even as a teenager, she felt guilt for wanting him around: After all, he was busy changing the world, socializing with rock stars and partying in the South of France.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/06/steve-jobs-exposed-as-an-abusive-creep-by-his-daughter/
The myth he built — a difficult man whose genius made him so and justified any personal failings — has finally been leveled.
“Small Fry (https://www.amazon.com/Small-Fry-Lisa-Brennan-Jobs/dp/0802128238?tag=nypost-20?tag=nypost-20),” the new memoir by his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, depicts a sadistic man and a horrible father: sexually inappropriate, verbally and psychologically abusive, pitiless and cheap — with his time, money, emotions, attention.
This was a man who liked to make little girls cry.
Brennan-Jobs, now 40, opens her book with a deathbed scene unlike any other. There is her father, a titan of the 20th century, emaciated and unable to walk, propped on a hospital bed in his study. She goes into the restroom and finds an expensive bottle of rosewater face mist. She spritzes herself. She is trying to make every interaction, possibly their last, perfect.
“I’d given up on the possibility of a grand reconciliation, the kind in the movies,” she writes. “But I kept coming anyway.”
After hugging her father goodbye, his bones protruding through waxy skin, he calls for her.
“Lis?”
“Yeah?”
“You smell like a toilet.”
While promoting her book, Brennan-Jobs has, poignantly, sought to excuse scenes like these. “Just to be clear: I did, in fact, smell like a toilet,” she tweeted on Aug. 15. She has expressed fear that readers might not appreciate the love she still has for her father or realize she has forgiven him. Even as a teenager, she felt guilt for wanting him around: After all, he was busy changing the world, socializing with rock stars and partying in the South of France.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/06/steve-jobs-exposed-as-an-abusive-creep-by-his-daughter/