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>I've just been ignoring(well, downvoting a few) the HN-comments around these YC Female Founder. But this one, this one is just awful. You represent the absolute fringe worse-case scenario that I suspect a few of the other commenters are thinking just not foolish enough to actually post.

Let me just ask you which part of what I posted was inaccurate? Everything that I said was true from consensus of every study and poll done. I am not about 'empowering' people to do things based on false promises and partial disclosure. If anyone wants to be a founder, and wants to be successful - it takes special qualities. Individuals (especially women) do not often posses these qualities. That is full disclosure. Guaranteed that if a speech was given at this conference about this reality and the facts that I stated in my earlier post, most women would leave dejected. The ones that would leave feeling motivated and on fire after such a challenge are the same women who would have succeeded anyway. Personally, I feel that out of the whole group, more would succeed if given full disclosure. I think that the 'better to have tried and failed' speech is complete BS in many cases (this being one of them). Do you think people still think this of all the gold minors in the Klondike (you know the dead ones). What about all the ambitions actors/actresses, artists, musicians ETC. that never made it and became druggies, hookers, porn actresses, and criminals. Were they better off from having tried?

Better off how?

>Get back in your time-machine and return to the 1950s.

The plain truth (though you would never see this in the media or among liberal discussions) is that women get less respect overall today than ever. Women have excelled in many areas, but a lot of the so called 'respect' that they have comes not from men changing, but from men keeping their mouths shut about what they really think. Do you think that this is really healthy? Political correctness silences the public mouth (and actions somewhat), but not the mind or private life.

I believe that if women did not expose their bodies so much and in so many different ways, men would not think of them as sexual objects as much, thus the respect baseline would be higher, making things easier (more truly equal) for women overall.