Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
by protomyth on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:11AM
(#26617902)
Any harsh feedback, if given, would be coming from all of us, and a mixed panel would be harder to accuse of sexism.
Nope, a hostile founder/CEO will pick the men out of the panel and sick the mob on them. The women on the panel are either oppressed or anti-feminism. The mob doesn't care and won't hear the whole story.
> The women on the panel are either oppressed or anti-feminism.
"internalized misogyny" is the term you are looking for.
Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
by quicklime on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:10AM
(#26631922)
Yep, that's why I used the word "harder" instead of "impossible". At that point, the situation would be within my threshold of acceptable risk.
Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
by yakshaving_jgt on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:28AM
(#26618280)
> a mixed panel would be harder to accuse of sexism
That's not how this works. People eager to engage in this kind of ideological battle always have Internalised Misogyny as an argument to fall back on in this situation.
Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
by imtringued on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:08AM
(#26618773)
Use another woman as a shield? Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
Longer term though, I'd make sure we hire female investors into my VC fund. I'd take them along the journey of investing with this startup, and if I felt a female CEO needed to be replaced with a man, I'd discuss this with my investment partners. Any harsh feedback, if given, would be coming from all of us, and a mixed panel would be harder to accuse of sexism.