Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up

Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by sendtown_expwy on Sunday March 28, 2021 @03:07PM (#26613189)

This is a really great piece. While it's unfortunate this phenomenon occurs, in a way it's also an opportunity for the many talented female VCs in the industry. I hope they capitalize on it!

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by sokoloff on Sunday March 28, 2021 @03:32PM (#26613466)

I’ve seen professional women get negative feedback when they favored a qualified man over a slightly less qualified woman. I can imagine a female VC would be under the same pressure to remain silent lest they be lit up on Twitter for being female and yet still sexist.

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by blippage on Sunday March 28, 2021 @04:10PM (#26613975)

"Internalised misogyny", perhaps?

I mean, why not, right? If gays can allegedly have "internalised homophobia", then why can't women have "internalised misogyny".

And so it goes. When we jettison reason, everyone gets to say what they want, and no-one gets to say that one conclusion is more soundly-based that another.

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj on Sunday March 28, 2021 @04:48PM (#26614380)

No, this is not a thing.

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by at_a_remove on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:35PM (#26616806)

I get 33,900 hits on Google for the phrase "internalized misogyny," so the poster did not coin a phrase.

Sounds like it is, in fact, a thing.

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by DC1350 on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:01AM (#26617597)

Try searching for unicorn

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by luckylion on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:11AM (#26619574)

Unicorns aren't unironically studied at universities and written about in the NYT.

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