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> "Who's watching your kids?" She retorted, "Who's watching yours?" Let's be honest. It's a rather valid question, from an investor perspective.
by rubashov 16y ago
> "Who's watching your kids?" She retorted, "Who's watching yours?"
Let's be honest. It's a rather valid question, from an investor perspective.
- hmahncke 16y agoIt's a valid question only if the investor commonly asks it both to men and women.
- rubashov 16y agoNot really. Men and women are different and relate to families differently. Deal with it.
- BCM43 16y agoNot really. Men and women are different and relate to families differently. Deal with it. I'm not really sure what to say to this other than I would prefer not to see such blatant sexism anywhere, but especially not on HN.
- mithaler 16y agoSpeak for yourself. I see no need to "deal with" your perceived differences in the way men and women relate to families, if that has not been my experience.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoOr if the investor understands Bayes rule (and also knows that women are more likely to care for children than men, forming a prior).
- hmahncke 16y agoThat prior might be valuable if it was based on the population under study, which is to say entrepreneurs. As is, based on the population at large, that prior is reasonably likely to be value-destructive.
- Montagist 16y agoNot valid at all, except that I know some people in that situation like to purposely ask jarring questions to see how one will respond to pressure. It may or may not have been condescending.
- jrmg 16y agoIn an employment interview in most places, it would be an illegal question. Assuming you think this is the intent behind it, "how much time can you commit to working on this?" or "you need to be immediately available at all times - can you do that?" would be a better way to phrase it. From the perspective of working, it doesn't matter what the thing is that is placing external demands on your time, only what those demands are.