sexism of any form is still sexism.
#shame
Female Founders Conference – Live Stream [video]
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#32This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think having separate gender events like these are a terrible idea. How much uproar would there be if there was an event called Male Founders Conference? Now, I believe there is gender discrimination in the tech industry but I don't think segregated events like these are the answer, but a part of the problem. We should be working towards making all events and conferences, w…
"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What's the difference between a flamewar topic or a controversial topic? This seems like a conversation killing policy to me, at least assuming you're exercising it as intended.
Re: Female Founders Conference – Live Stream [video]
#33I attended the conference today and it was awesome! An amazing opportunity to hear from and meet so many amazing women.
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#34I must say I am disappointed that the Female Founders Conference did not address the challenges that women of color face in tech. Not a comment, nothing.
Re: Female Founders Conference – Live Stream [video]
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably there are things they would like to talk about that are not interesting to others. For instance, maybe childbirth and pregnancy are something they care about. Honestly, maybe some things that are not as important to non-founders and men. It's just a different forum. The same way we don't discuss mountain climbing on debian-dev. Anyway, that said, that's not why I considered down modding. It's because this…
I differ on your take that that would be a vi vs emacs because it's not. Essentially, you're saying, it's a preference, choice, which this certainly is not. From a philosophical perspective, this kind of segregation is dangerous. I can see why it's attractive in the short-term. Indeed it may have short-term benefits, but it masks a problem, rather than fixes it. Essentially, a portion of society is saying, that part…
No. I mean it's a repetitive discussion which just creates noise. Everyone says the same things every time. I should never have even replied.
Re: Female Founders Conference – Live Stream [video]
#36I must say I am disappointed that the Female Founders Conference did not address the challenges that women of color face in tech. Not a comment, nothing.
as am I, it just goes to show that the patriarchy is, as always, literally raping womyn of color, such as myself.
Re: Female Founders Conference – Live Stream [video]
#37Does anyone know when the videos will be uploaded to youtube? It appears the event is over.
Re: Female Founders Conference – Live Stream [video]
#38This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think having separate gender events like these are a terrible idea. How much uproar would there be if there was an event called Male Founders Conference? Now, I believe there is gender discrimination in the tech industry but I don't think segregated events like these are the answer, but a part of the problem. We should be working towards making all events and conferences, w…
I'm with you. We have separate events for women in sports because they wouldn't be able to compete with men for obvious biological reasons. Holding separate events for entrepreneurship or engineering in the same way we do for sports sends the message that women can't compete with men in these fields either, which isn't true.
> Holding separate events for entrepreneurship or engineering in the same way we do for sports sends the message that women can't compete with men in these fields either, which isn't true.
I wouldn't say that's necessarily true, it could be merely acknowledging (what I consider to be) the fact that women communicate differently enough from men that they'd like to have their own get togethers now and then. Is it "sexist"? Sure. Is that bad? I don't see how. Men in tech get to work closely with other men all the time, women don't. I don't see how women wanting the same thing just sometimes can't be considered perfectly reasonable.
Re: Female Founders Conference – Live Stream [video]
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What's the difference between a flamewar topic or a controversial topic? This seems like a conversation killing policy to me, at least assuming you're exercising it as intended.
Killing a conversation unless you have something genuinely new to say about them sounds like a good policy to me.
Re: Female Founders Conference – Live Stream [video]
#40I must say I am disappointed that the Female Founders Conference did not address the challenges that women of color face in tech. Not a comment, nothing.
Looking at the list 5 out of 12 (42%) of the women speaking were not white.
They were free to speak about whatever they wanted it seemed?