I didn't intend to particularly provide a definition for cynicism so much as deflect the idea I was writing out of hatred. >This piece, seen as a consequential

I didn't intend to particularly provide a definition for cynicism so much as deflect the idea I was writing out of hatred. >This piece, seen as a consequentialist act, would be a gambit played to calm a possible negative tide in feminist circles toward YC, that might have resulted in YC getting fewer (qualified!) female applicants... which would be bad for business. Precisely, with a possible qualifier on 'feminist circles'--moderate, maybe even conservative feminist circles. By which I mean to say, he's pointedly ignoring the feminist concerns outside of the most mainstream: even those that have a point. Which is why this isn't a conversation! There is no interchange of ideas happening here, only the inevitable flame war spawned by a HN gender topic.