If you'll read upstream, you'll see that the intention was to leave this ambiguous and let you decide. There are several ways to take this: 1. Your idea that t

If you'll read upstream, you'll see that the intention was to leave this ambiguous and let you decide. There are several ways to take this: 1. Your idea that there was nothing wrong with the situation and the OP was being denigrating to women everywhere by pointing out this situation and implying there was anything wrong. 2. Another idea that the founders weren't interested in hiring an intern for actual work, as there wasn't enough to go around, but would hire an 18 yo girl to hang around the office. 3. Another idea may be that an 18 yo is not experienced enough to realize they are being paid much less than market value for their work and it's being called an "internship". Women especially seem to put up with this nonsense. 4. Some other scenario I haven't thought up yet. Rorschach test away... I did find it odd that you seemed to specifically pick on tech startups when I think the exact same situation would be equally stupid in a startup for media or other finance or another industry.