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Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by namenotrequired »

Jun8 wrote: post #10
namenotrequired wrote: post #3

For those who wouldn't click cause it's "Female Founders" - so far it's been just as inspiring as Startup School (even for me as a man).

Who do you think wouldn't click? This sort of condescending underestimation of the HN crowd just amazes me! As expected, it's currently #1 on HN.

Sorry if that's condescending? It wasn't meant to be. I just know many men might understandably not be immediately interested in something that's clearly aimed at women.

Edit: Oh, and also because it didn't appear on the front page until ~30 minutes after it started (though it had appeared on new a few times).

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by drdeadringer »

ispivey wrote: post #20
drdeadringer wrote: post #13

Granted I haven't met very many male SWE members... in fact none... ... but I'm amazed and saddened that this headline has gotten this far due to popular demand. "Please dear lord see how I and my company aren't sexist by watching this live-stream of our going over specifically-female founders".

This is probably a new HN record in mistakenly ascribing bad intentions, which is pretty impressive. Perhaps people are interested in watching some awesome founders speak.

> people are interested in watching some awesome founders speak

Agreed.

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by beambot »

To all the people kvetching in the comments... this is the live stream for "YC's Female Founders Conference" [1]. That's why "female" is in the post title.

I'm an ardent supporter of the effort, and I hope (much like startup school) that YC is able to make it into an annual event! Very inspiring! Also, my wife is in attendance. I look forward to hearing her reactions later tonight. If the live stream is any indicator, it looks like a really great event.

[1] http://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-female-founders-c...

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by namenotrequired »

igravious wrote: post #11
namenotrequired wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a question?

Ah, you may not be acquainted with English punctuation. The ? (question mark) and ! (exclamation point) when combined so ?! usually denotes (connotes?) baffled incredulity[0] or something similar. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark From good ol' Wiki P, "The exclamation mark is sometimes used in conjunction with the question mark. This can be in protest or astonishment ("Out of all places, the squatter…

Thanks a lot for explaining! The same is true in Dutch, perhaps I should have phrased my question as "what surprises you?".

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by Jun8 »

Ambrosia wrote: post #14
Jun8 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who do you think wouldn't click? This sort of condescending underestimation of the HN crowd just amazes me! As expected, it's currently #1 on HN.

I guess you haven't seen the normal shit that comes up whenever people try to encourage women to do stuff.

Nope, this is in fact one of the topics that I feel strongly (and try to work on with high school prog teams). Yet, I feel there's a bit of hysteresis effect on that discussion, with HN flooded with such posts. Most of the "normal shit" on HN you refer to stems from the above.

This one is quite different though, it's actually about female founders, not just targeting girls for coding.

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by Dewie »

igravious wrote: post #11
namenotrequired wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a question?

Ah, you may not be acquainted with English punctuation. The ? (question mark) and ! (exclamation point) when combined so ?! usually denotes (connotes?) baffled incredulity[0] or something similar. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark From good ol' Wiki P, "The exclamation mark is sometimes used in conjunction with the question mark. This can be in protest or astonishment ("Out of all places, the squatter…

> Ah, you may not be acquainted with English punctuation.

Most of us are familiar with passive aggressiveness, though. Playing dumb in the face of it is one way of deflecting it.

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by Jun8 »

namenotrequired wrote: post #21
Jun8 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who do you think wouldn't click? This sort of condescending underestimation of the HN crowd just amazes me! As expected, it's currently #1 on HN.

Sorry if that's condescending? It wasn't meant to be. I just know many men might understandably not be immediately interested in something that's clearly aimed at women. Edit: Oh, and also because it didn't appear on the front page until ~30 minutes after it started (though it had appeared on new a few times).

No problem, it just seemed that you had a priori assumptions that may not be correct. If you want to sell to women, of course you would be interested, e.g. the great scene where Darcy first meets and teaches Nick this point in What Women Want (great movie all through, btw). As an edge case, think of people in Mattel not being interested in what girls think!

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by staticelf »

I dislike the fact that females get a lot more attention because of their gender. If you want true equality you've to start treating everybody as equals and giving extra space for some just doesn't cut it.

I see this all the time in my country (I don't know if this is the case here) but females get a lot more attention in basically all areas of society and I don't think much good can come from that.

Well, I guess I'm just trying to write as a man in the extremely feministic country of Sweden I kind of feel left out and viewed as "not as important" as the counter gender. Since I am quite young and the feministic views here just has grown stronger with the years, this feeling has grown on me since I started elementary school.

Now in my twenties, I don't think it's that weird I think feminism is possibly one of the worst phenomenas in my country and the world in general.

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by namenotrequired »

Dewie wrote: post #27
igravious wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, you may not be acquainted with English punctuation. The ? (question mark) and ! (exclamation point) when combined so ?! usually denotes (connotes?) baffled incredulity[0] or something similar. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark From good ol' Wiki P, "The exclamation mark is sometimes used in conjunction with the question mark. This can be in protest or astonishment ("Out of all places, the squatter…

> Ah, you may not be acquainted with English punctuation. Most of us are familiar with passive aggressiveness, though. Playing dumb in the face of it is one way of deflecting it.

Yep this is closer to my intention :) kmfrk were clearly surprised by something but there was no indication what. I appreciate that igravious he took the time to explain nonetheless!
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