Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by magicalist on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:19AM (#7327825)

What in the world does this have to do with the event or the parent comment? Do people really have no level of self-introspection to the fact that you're the one making the conversation about this? That your immediate response is to this instead of the actual content, and yet you feel compelled to share it with the world?

Nobody owes you a conference without the word "female" in the name, or one not featuring female founders speaking about their successes and failures. Get over it.

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by cheez on Monday March 03, 2014 @12:50PM (#7335130)

Wait, what? The parent was the one who emphasized "female" and associated it with "kvetching". I was more thinking out loud in the first bit, and then agreed with his point.

Unbunch your panties, Internet person. I suspect they will give you a heart attack.

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by magicalist on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @04:04AM (#7339183)

No, the top poster was explaining why "female" was in the submission name (it was literally the event's name and a description of the people who were invited to speak), with the hopes that people could focus on the content.

"I'm an ardent supporter of the effort" is in specific reference to the conference, not an invitation for you to play topic-association and share your musings on what male/female ratio is appropriate in the tech industry.

It's irrelevant, but more importantly it's a fucking farce to try to hide behind a professed search for "truth" while turning an exploration of actual female experiences in the tech industry into a discussion of your thoughts on whether or not we should encourage more women to enter the tech industry. Own up to it and move on.

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by cheez on Sunday March 09, 2014 @09:17PM (#7370795)

In thinking over the topic a bit more, as well as reading more on it, I think I've come to a more nuanced understanding about it all. It's not that people want a 50/50 split, it's that they want more women who want to be in tech, to be in tech.

I always thought it was that they wanted a 50/50 split which never made sense to me. After reading the recaps of the female attendees, it hit me.

Carry on.

As for the on-topicness of the initial post, guilty. I had just read the "no gender pay gap in software" and so my mind was in that mode.

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