I think he’s saying that she looked like a Normal and isn’t it sad she felt pressured to become a Beautiful, but really she was cheating by using a scalpel and got what she deserved. Of course she was not a Normal to begin with, and whatever “revolutionary” fantasies he had about her being attainable for dudes like…

That’s what you got from this? Really?

That’s what you chose to focus on here?

This doesn’t strike me as a story about feminism or women in the workplace. It’s strikes me mostly as a story about how the venture capital culture of Silicon Valley, which is predicated on very rapid growth, hurts employees.