At least to me, these sort of articles always seem to conflate two different things: a handful of horny jerks, and the inability for a certain group (white, mid

At least to me, these sort of articles always seem to conflate two different things: a handful of horny jerks, and the inability for a certain group (white, middle-aged, male) to understand how attractive business ideas could be to other groups (gender, age, culture). I'm not sure these two problems are all that much related, and mixing them together is not going to help fight them. I do not share or understand most of my SO's interests, and vice versa. I don't think that's sexism. I imagine it would be a lot harder to enthusiastically fund ideas which are not interesting to me at all; it would require a much larger leap of faith. We need female funders not because men are all too horribly sexist but because it would simply be easier to find people that can relate to your ideas and see value in them.