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> Young women with an entrepraneurial (sic) drive of ALL backgrounds between the ages of 18-25 are welcome to apply! [emphasis mine] Do other "hacker house" a
by ohazi 5y ago
> Young women with an entrepraneurial (sic) drive of ALL backgrounds between the ages of 18-25 are welcome to apply!
[emphasis mine]
Do other "hacker house" arrangements typically ask for such a narrow age range (explicitly, even)? I'm a guy in my thirties, so clearly not the intended audience, but this sounds to me like: "If you ever tried going to grad school, we're not interested in you," which I find mildly distasteful.
Am I way off base here?
- mc32 5y agoYeah that does seem very narrow. If you want to focus on women that’s great but that narrow age band is kind of weird. Why wouldn’t they want age and experience diversity? That seems odd.
- lhorie 5y agoMy hot take is that given the site says this a 14 room house w/ a one person per room arrangement, they are assuming they'll get more applications than they have slots available. Which would be a reasonable assumption were it not for the mass exodus of their target demographic from downtown SF last year due to covid. So if age is the only limiting factor for you, I'd say go ahead and give it a shot. Though, with that said, there's plenty of other dorms/options around town that are probably just as fine if your plan is to be heads down working on your computer anyways.