Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1)
by nawitus on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:35PM
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It's discrimination by definition. Some may claim that certain kind of discrimination is positive (e.g. positive discrimination itself). I'm personally objected to all kinds of discrimination, "positive" or not.
Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1)
by limedaring on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:42PM
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I think you should revisit your definition of discrimination. Discrimination is treating someone unfavorably or with prejudice due to their gender. This event is for female founders and promoting them. There is nothing against men, against male founders, or the sex in general.
Just because something is for one subject does not mean it's against the opposite.
Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1)
by nawitus on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @04:50PM
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Definitions of words are a) subjective b) tools for communication and c) political. I think my definition of discrimination is better, because there's no objective definition of 'good discrimination' versus 'bad discrimination'. Defining discrimination to only mean 'bad discrimination' is then futile, and doesn't really help with communication. In fact, those endless debates of what is and what is not discrimination would be replaced with slightly more constructive debates of where discrimination might be justified and where not.
How is that discriminatory? You can't argue that women are widely represented in entrepreneurship (heck, it's an even smaller percentage than in development.) Startup School has always been 99% men. I'm personally super excited about a conference with women who've dealt with the issues I have as a female founder.