[giantsloth]

This whole discussion is missing the forest through the trees.

People are fighting over the scraps being dolled out by some out of touch billionaire, who ultimately wants to increase her network and drive up her labor supply to increase her profits.

This program will effect 40 people (who cares about their gender) out of many 100s of millions of Americans. 40 people who are in a socioeconomic class to know about this program and to have had the education to articulate themselves well enough to be admitted.

If this woman actually wanted to help women she’d be striving and advocating for public policy that actually looks to provide universal programs across socioeconomic backgrounds (which would include white men and women and also poor black people).

But she’s not, she believes she should have unilateral control over who gets to be successful through access to programming training, because she’s fundamentally anti democratic.