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(Bloomberg) -- Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy,” adding that it’s good if a culture “celebrates the aggression a bit more.”
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“Masculine energy I think is good, and obviously society has plenty of that, but I think that corporate culture was really trying to get away from it,” Zuckerberg said during a nearly three-hour-long conversation with podcaster Joe Rogan published on Friday.
“It’s like you want feminine energy, you want masculine energy,” Zuckerberg said during the episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. “I think that that’s all good. But I do think the corporate culture sort of had swung toward being this somewhat more neutered thing,” he added, before discussing his passions for mixed martial arts and hunting invasive pigs in Hawaii.
Zuckerberg, who launched his career by rating the attractiveness of women at Harvard University, added that he grew up with three sisters and has three daughters, and wants women to succeed in corporations.
“If you’re a woman going into a company, it probably feels like it’s too masculine. It’s — there isn’t enough of the energy that you may naturally have,” he told Rogan. “You want women to be able to succeed and have companies that can unlock all the value from having great people no matter what their background or gender.”
Meta’s Policy Changes
The podcast episode was released just days after Meta loosened its content moderation policies for Instagram and Facebook to allow more leniency for users criticizing immigrants, transgender and nonbinary people, or making exclusionary statements based on someone’s sex or gender. On Tuesday, Meta also announced the end of third-party fact-checking in the US, and on Friday, the company said it was halting many of its internal training and hiring efforts aimed at making its workforce more diverse.
The Friday episode marked Zuckerberg’s second appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan, who is considered to be the most popular podcaster in the world, has 19 million subscribers on Google’s YouTube and more than 15 million on Spotify.
In the interview, Zuckerberg expressed discomfort about engaging with the traditional press, adding that podcasts are helping to fuel a “sea change in terms of who are the voices that matter.”