>It breaks my heart that the first reaction by our community isn't to integrate her lived experience, but to question it. Everybody has a "lived experience" an

>It breaks my heart that the first reaction by our community isn't to integrate her lived experience, but to question it. Everybody has a "lived experience" and we don't integrate the "lived experience" of others without scepticism because that would make us easy to con. >It is to question her being and (implicitly) her right to be in these spaces. I'll question her right explicitly to be in those spaces. Nothing she has made impresses me and I wouldn't give her money in the VC's shoes. >There's a lot of work to be done in the industry. And I hope that this is a moment of personal growth and reflection for most involved. There will be a day when these replies will be looked as antiquated. I look forward with hope to that day. Your blind belief in peoples lived experiences led you to seemingly get hoodwinked by somebody who develops mediocre products backed by seemingly fraudulent reviews. You're so caught up in your own superiority that you fail to reflect on the ideological blind spot that makes you easy to con.