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Re:Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day by fastball on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:55PM (#16634306)
Am I the only one that thinks "a social network for women (Leap)" is a bit sexist?
Re:Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day by telesilla on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:01AM (#16635853)
I belong to a women's industry group and pay dues, in a very gender-unbalanced industry. We talk about issues that are very specific to women: how to get more of us in the industry, mostly. Men of the industry are always welcome to our social events and I think they enjoy coming along because it's the only place in their own work lives where they get to hang out with women. So we're showing men what a world with women in it, is like. Eventually we won't need the industry group, once we're well-established.
Re:Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day by jameslevy on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:24PM (#16634491)
Sexist because men aren't welcome? While it would be the case that a social network for men could be considered sexist and maybe this represents a double standard, I'm sure there is a very good argument for why networks like Leap aren't sexist, just as there are good arguments for why pro-diversity hiring policies are not necessarily racist.
Re:Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day by mlindner on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:43PM (#16634899)
> why pro-diversity hiring policies are not necessarily racist

Supreme court has also ruled that opposing them because they are racist is also not racist.

> It has come to this. Called upon to explore the jurisprudential twilight zone between two errant lines of precedent, we confront a frighteningly bizarre question: Does the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbid what its text plainly requires? Needless to say (except that this case obliges us to say it), the question answers itself. “The Constitution proscribes government discrimination on the basis of race, and state-provided education is no exception.” Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U. S. 306, 349 (2003) (Scalia, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). It is precisely this understanding—the correct understanding—of the federal Equal Protection Clause that the people of the State of Michigan have adopted for their own fundamental law. By adopting it, they did not simultaneously offend it.

Re:Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day by racer-v on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:20AM (#16635933)
I'm sure there are too, I just can't think of any.
Re:Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day by drewbuschhorn on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:45AM (#16637528)
I'll bite. At their heart, all antidiscrimination laws are based on the idea of equalizing power.

The law doesn't care if people with one set of genitals doesn't want to hang out with people of another set. What it is concerned about is if a given group has significant power to prevent another group from pursuing life, lib, and happiness.

Viewed from that angle, it becomes clear why antidiscrimination laws favoring AA in traditionally Cauc challenges are legal, but the reverse would not be true.

https://www.acacamps.org/resource-library/campline/single-ge...

Note that, for example, Hooters Rest. lost a discrimination case against males on the grounds that the hiring criteria was unfairly weighted (power applied) towards women (given their ostensible marketing strategy).

Re:Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day by racer-v on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:51PM (#16639945)
if a given group has significant power to prevent another group from pursuing life, lib, and happiness.

Viewed from that angle, it becomes clear why antidiscrimination laws favoring AA in traditionally Cauc challenges are legal

I'm not sure it's a good idea to enshrine the idea that "Cauc" have an inherent power over "AA" into law. This seems close to running afoul of Equal Protection.

Re:Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day by probably_wrong on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:04AM (#16636107)
There was a long thread about them two months ago, with the founders answering some questions on that topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159808

Re:Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day by wellboy on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:23AM (#16636570)
Society only sees it sexist if it's done by the overrepresented gender, just like racism.