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Re: Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas

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Post by jblandino » Sun, Aug 19, 2018, 3:48 AM UTC

To end these discussions I will mention the following.

I contacted the Stripe Atlas team about this offer and as they say, if they read the website, it refers to the offer is only for women (but it is not the case), the offer is open to any person / gender that wants take advantage of it, they only put "For women" to continue promoting in which more founders are united to the emprendimiento of this decade.

For example, I just got the offer as a man, they did not charge me the $ 500 fee, so I understand that everything is correct.

Do not take everything as literal, one thing is what the web says and another is what they really offer, anyone can be wrong.

Re: Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas

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Post by anon12345690 » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 5:35 AM UTC

laurex wrote: post #103

It strikes me that it's rare that you hear an outcry about things being "marketed specifically to women" unless those things are ones that have traditionally been the domain of men. If an offer about makeup or diapers or Zumba class was clearly targeted at women, or even jobs that orient around similar themes, my guess is that it wouldn't merit much of an outcry on HN.

there is a difference between targeted to women and only available to women

Re: Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas

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Post by anon12345690 » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 5:36 AM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #83

repolfx wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When do men unfairly benefit from things in the tech industry? Can you show something specific , that isn't a strong assumption of invisible discrimination on the basis of statistically differing outcomes? Cuz I don't recall encountering any "men in tech" events, or investment funds that invest only in men, or efforts to encourage white boys to study computers.

Asking for explicit examples of an implicit bias is stupid.

how do you know there is bias without evidence? saying the numbers arent what you like is not evidence

Re: Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas

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Post by anon12345690 » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 5:37 AM UTC

yifanl wrote: post #81

repolfx wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When do men unfairly benefit from things in the tech industry? Can you show something specific , that isn't a strong assumption of invisible discrimination on the basis of statistically differing outcomes? Cuz I don't recall encountering any "men in tech" events, or investment funds that invest only in men, or efforts to encourage white boys to study computers.

I'm going to reframe those questions. Why are there no "men in tech" events? Why are no efforts made to encourage white guys to study compsci? After all, if there's a genuine need for them, I would strongly expect them to exist.

theres no genuine need for any specific group because there is already plenty of competition

some people and groups just want special treatment

Re: Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas

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Post by anon12345690 » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 5:43 AM UTC

DoreenMichele wrote: post #107

repolfx wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given how many people post under pseudonyms how do you know you're the only woman who spent time there? That's a huge presumption isn't it? Anyway, let's imagine it's true. Nothing keeps women away from Hacker News. They aren't discouraged or told HN is a "site for men". Despite that, they exclude themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159808 "Leap: an online community for women" If you really think socie…

That's a huge presumption isn't it? Nope. I usually qualify the statement, as I did above. In this case, I wrote that I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leaderboard of HN. At other times, I use the framing openly female member . It's based on data collection and on the fact that claiming to be, for example, the highest ranked openly female member for the past 2 or 2.5 years has not resulted…

lack of evidence is not evidence

youre making up rationalizations for a infinite number of reasons why someone is not "openly" female, whatever that means and as if you browsed the history of all top posters

you dont know who is male or female with usernames and why would anyone really care to correct you on a claim like that for a site where the points are meaningless?