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I’m not impressed with the comments here. The author has eight years of experience in finance and was apparently the best person to fill this role despite her l

I’m not impressed with the comments here. The author has eight years of experience in finance and was apparently the best person to fill this role despite her lack of directly relevant experience. (You might disagree, but that was the perspective of investors with a lot of skin in the game.) The article makes good points and is well written. And yet it seems half of the comments can’t get past the fact that she worked as a waitress back around the time the iPhone came out. I’m not one to cry sexism, but I’m seeing s lot of it (and perhaps some classism too) in this thread. Please do better, HN.

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anon12345690 7y ago
if you have to jump to sexism without any evidence then you need a better argument. you should do better instead of asking HN.
- Traster 7y ago
  The evidence is right in front of anyone who reads hacker news regularly. You might have a different judgement, but it's not difficult to say that I've seen lots of articles on Hacker news where men in similar situations are regarded as go getters who have the balls to get stuck in and take a swing at the top job. She's a Principal at a VC, she's got two bachelors degrees (one in Economics), experience working in M&A and she was a board member. Yet somehow, despite knowing literally nothing about the company she was CEO of, Hacker News have decided not only that she was unqualified, but: > I dug a bit to figure out what space the company is in, so that I can avoid using their services if it was applicable. >Why on earth was this person in any way shape or form the person to step in? >How did a waitress become a VC? (Didn’t read the article) Despite that piece of information literally being a cheeky throw away line in the intro of the piece.
  - skinnymuch 7y ago
    Thanks for posting a mini compilation of comments. Pretty clear to me as well what the intent of a number of comments are when you’re reading through or even just skimming all the comments. My only other comment here is a push back against what I felt was a comment going too far the other way. But the amount of comments similar to the ones you quoted are far too much.
  - anon12345690 7y ago
    they would say that even if it was a guy. your just assuming and thats not evidence its sexist.
xfitm3 7y ago
Sexism is a low blow and unsubstantiated outside of the suffix "ress". Provide proof for your claims.
- neonate 7y ago
  I think the GP went a bit far, but I can't help feeling a bit of it in the air. Something about the word "waitress" caused a weird backlash. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19957074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19957074 is not a good-faith comment.
kristianov 7y ago
If the author were a man, you would not bring gender into the discussion. Also, by bringing gender into the discussion, you've only managed to expose your own biases, not the others'.

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anon12345690 7y ago

if you have to jump to sexism without any evidence then you need a better argument. you should do better instead of asking HN.

Traster 7y ago
The evidence is right in front of anyone who reads hacker news regularly. You might have a different judgement, but it's not difficult to say that I've seen lots of articles on Hacker news where men in similar situations are regarded as go getters who have the balls to get stuck in and take a swing at the top job. She's a Principal at a VC, she's got two bachelors degrees (one in Economics), experience working in M&A and she was a board member. Yet somehow, despite knowing literally nothing about the company she was CEO of, Hacker News have decided not only that she was unqualified, but: > I dug a bit to figure out what space the company is in, so that I can avoid using their services if it was applicable. >Why on earth was this person in any way shape or form the person to step in? >How did a waitress become a VC? (Didn’t read the article) Despite that piece of information literally being a cheeky throw away line in the intro of the piece.
- skinnymuch 7y ago
  Thanks for posting a mini compilation of comments. Pretty clear to me as well what the intent of a number of comments are when you’re reading through or even just skimming all the comments. My only other comment here is a push back against what I felt was a comment going too far the other way. But the amount of comments similar to the ones you quoted are far too much.
- anon12345690 7y ago
  they would say that even if it was a guy. your just assuming and thats not evidence its sexist.

xfitm3 7y ago

Sexism is a low blow and unsubstantiated outside of the suffix "ress". Provide proof for your claims.

neonate 7y ago
I think the GP went a bit far, but I can't help feeling a bit of it in the air. Something about the word "waitress" caused a weird backlash. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19957074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19957074 is not a good-faith comment.

kristianov 7y ago

If the author were a man, you would not bring gender into the discussion. Also, by bringing gender into the discussion, you've only managed to expose your own biases, not the others'.