You got an answer from someone else earlier than this comment that you didn't answer. There was vibrator, from women founder, who were at CES. https://news.yco

You got an answer from someone else earlier than this comment that you didn't answer. There was vibrator, from women founder, who were at CES. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18872924 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18872924 You are bending yourself backward trying to ignore that sexism or discrimination may have not been the issue here. If theses others products were there, why wasn't they banned too if there is sexism? That article is only one side of the story, a side that clearly want to prove that sexism and discrimination was at play here. It's fine but it only tell argument in favor of that hypothesis. In this case, maybe her stands was relative to her winning. That would means she could no longer showcase, but wouldn't actually be disallowed to showcase (except by the deadline, which isn't sexist I can assure you ;) ). There's still so much sexism in the world, particularly in entrepreneurship, but blaming everything on it is dangerous and can actually hurt the cause.