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Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by MartinCron »

spaceborn wrote: post #150
MartinCron wrote: post #145

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..phrased in such a way as to suggest support of segregationist policies If that's what you think, then you have a pretty shallow understanding of the issue. That's OK. People have shallow understanding of all sorts of things. Maybe you should keep quiet about it instead of embarrassing yourself, though?

Perhaps you should elaborate on your own deep understanding of the subject rather than simply alluding to it. Why is it that SJW types are so quick to insult and demean anyone who disagrees with them? It's very unpleasant. Your beliefs are not the forgone conclusion you treat them as.

Why is it that SJW types are so quick to insult and demean anyone who disagrees with them? It's very unpleasant

Is this the angle that you're coming from now? I thought that it was liberals and white knights and feminists that were so thin-skinned and sensitive?

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by spaceborn »

danilocampos wrote: post #147
Crake wrote: post #110

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Oh geez, what was I thinking, you're totally right. You've convinced me, I'll shut up and check my white cishet male shitlord privilege. >You'll learn about the blind spots. The exclusion. >you'll learn how toxic it is when monocultures form >The lack of productive conflict Said the SJW to the minority, with absolutely no self-awareness at all.

I think you'll find /r/mensrights is on another website. I am sure they will welcome you there.

Why don't you address the comment you're responding to instead of lobbing insults?

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by enneff »

paulhauggis wrote: post #148
argumentum wrote: post #135

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Let me flip your argument around. If you truly care about people in tech, you should applaud any well-meaning effort to get more people excited about tech, such as this, irrespective of how the event is phrased. That this particular event is geared towards women doesn't prevent other events targeted to other groups: a conference for older founders, for example. Moreover events geared towards underrepresented groups h…

"If you truly care about people in tech, you should applaud any well-meaning effort to get more people excited about tech, such as this, irrespective of how the event is phrased." What if it was phrased "whites in tech". Would you be okay with it?

I would wonder why the hell it's necessary, considering the technology industry is dominated by white people.

http://www.lpfi.org/sites/default/files/tilted_playing_field...

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by GhotiFish »

dovel wrote: post #113
vacri wrote: post #73

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So essentially you're saying that wheelchair ramps shouldn't be installed because we need to maintain an ironclad everone-gets-exactly-the-same-treatment position? A ramp serves only a very select part of the population, therefore it isn't 'fair' and should be shunned? Women are being treated differently, that is what is keeping them out, so I will endeavour not to treat them differently? The flaw here is the fundame…

People are ignorant to the material effects of oppression. I'm not sure how sometimes, especially on hacker news, since everyone in this thread wouldn't start discussing some small aspect of a programming language they have never used. But if they wanted to, they would look it up and the contribute. When it comes to anything social and therefore political people are throwing words around and they do not even understa…

That metaphor is funny, wouldn't you resent those posters if they did?

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by [deleted] »

paulhauggis wrote: post #148
argumentum wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me flip your argument around. If you truly care about people in tech, you should applaud any well-meaning effort to get more people excited about tech, such as this, irrespective of how the event is phrased. That this particular event is geared towards women doesn't prevent other events targeted to other groups: a conference for older founders, for example. Moreover events geared towards underrepresented groups h…

"If you truly care about people in tech, you should applaud any well-meaning effort to get more people excited about tech, such as this, irrespective of how the event is phrased." What if it was phrased "whites in tech". Would you be okay with it?

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Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by wyager »

enneff wrote: post #141
staticelf wrote: post #29

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…

The Swedish male is doing fine. You might not be, personally, but it's not because you're discriminated against. You describe your country as "extremely feministic" as if it's a bad thing, but how can that be when there is still such a strong gender imbalance? http://qz.com/37036/in-sweden-women-make-up-45-of-parliament... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-18/top-female-swedish-... http://www.theguardian.com/busi…

Just because one group is marginalized in some way doesn't make it OK to intentionally marginalize another group in what can only be called retaliation.

I personally subscribe to the ethos of "two wrongs don't make a right".

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by enneff »

wyager wrote: post #156
enneff wrote: post #141

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The Swedish male is doing fine. You might not be, personally, but it's not because you're discriminated against. You describe your country as "extremely feministic" as if it's a bad thing, but how can that be when there is still such a strong gender imbalance? http://qz.com/37036/in-sweden-women-make-up-45-of-parliament... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-18/top-female-swedish-... http://www.theguardian.com/busi…

Just because one group is marginalized in some way doesn't make it OK to intentionally marginalize another group in what can only be called retaliation. I personally subscribe to the ethos of "two wrongs don't make a right".

The GP makes the unsupported (and IMO spurious) claim that in Sweden, "females get a lot more attention in basically all areas of society". You're now categorising that (which may not exist) as aggression against men.

Show us the evidence that men in Sweden are marginalised and I'll jump right on that anti-feminism bandwagon. I suspect I'll be waiting a while.

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by argumentum »

paulhauggis wrote: post #148
argumentum wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me flip your argument around. If you truly care about people in tech, you should applaud any well-meaning effort to get more people excited about tech, such as this, irrespective of how the event is phrased. That this particular event is geared towards women doesn't prevent other events targeted to other groups: a conference for older founders, for example. Moreover events geared towards underrepresented groups h…

"If you truly care about people in tech, you should applaud any well-meaning effort to get more people excited about tech, such as this, irrespective of how the event is phrased." What if it was phrased "whites in tech". Would you be okay with it?

Okay in what sense? I would absolutely defend someone's right to hold such an event.

I wouldn't even be against it, I would likely just not care about it (what's the point).

Re: Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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Post by magicalist »

cheez wrote: post #139
beambot wrote: post #23

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…

What if only 10% of women are interested in working in tech but 20% of men are interested? (Random numbers not based in reality). Does a 50/50 split make sense? My personal experience is that there are fewer Black and Hispanic high tech workers than pretty much any other demographic, including women, if you get out of the big cities. I wish the answers were clearer, but all I can say is that if women are actually dis…

What in the world does this have to do with the event or the parent comment? Do people really have no level of self-introspection to the fact that you're the one making the conversation about this? That your immediate response is to this instead of the actual content, and yet you feel compelled to share it with the world?

Nobody owes you a conference without the word "female" in the name, or one not featuring female founders speaking about their successes and failures. Get over it.

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