Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDaqt9NzDUc

by ggreer • 12 years ago

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facepalm9• 12 years ago

"Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights." (Quote YouTube)

namenotrequired10• 12 years ago

This link works for me from the Netherlands: http://www.livestream.com/femalefounders

facepalm9• 12 years ago

Thanks, it works.

lucb1e• 12 years ago

Thanks! It didn't work for me on the official youtube android app (facepalm) but this link works.

zem2• 12 years ago

seldom has your username been more appropriate

namenotrequired10• 12 years ago

For those who wouldn't click cause it's "Female Founders" - so far it's been just as inspiring as Startup School (even for me as a man).

zbruhnke• 12 years ago

Agreed! been watching the entire thing so far

semerda• 12 years ago

Ditto. Some great speakers and great nuggets of education! Watching it now :-)

kmfrk• 12 years ago

For those who wouldn't click cause it's "Female Founders" - so far it's been just as inspiring as Startup School (even for me as a man).

namenotrequired10• 12 years ago

Do you have a question?

Jun83• 12 years ago

Who do you think wouldn't click? This sort of condescending underestimation of the HN crowd just amazes me! As expected, it's currently #1 on HN.

Ambrosia• 12 years ago

I guess you haven't seen the normal shit that comes up whenever people try to encourage women to do stuff.

jonalmeida5• 12 years ago

Not true, I didn't click the link because I feared it was about getting more female founders in development.

After reading namenotrequired's comment I clicked.

namenotrequired10• 12 years ago

Sorry if that's condescending? It wasn't meant to be. I just know many men might understandably not be immediately interested in something that's clearly aimed at women.

Edit: Oh, and also because it didn't appear on the front page until ~30 minutes after it started (though it had appeared on new a few times).

Crake24• 12 years ago

I usually don't bother with links to things that are phrased in such a way as to suggest support of segregationist policies. I don't care about women in tech. I care about people in tech.

nilved• 12 years ago

Awesome! That's why you support women in tech and the female founder thought, right? Because that's how _people_ get in to tech?

dandrews3• 12 years ago

Problem is, Crake, we're doing something wrong. Three years I went to Conj, and the first year there were -zero- women attendees out of 300. Second year it was -three- attendees out of 300. Third year it was eight or nine. I don't know what Lynn and company managed to attract last year.

The people attending Conj are bright, well-spoken, polite. I didn't meet a jerk in three years, a crowd I was proud to be seen with. But WHERE WERE THE WOMEN? What is going on here?

We must do something. I don't know what. I'll agree with you that exclusionary events are counterproductive, but I can't see the harm in recognizing successful women who can show us how it's done.

danilocampos8• 12 years ago

I don't care about women in tech.

I've noticed.

When you collect a few more life experiences, perhaps get a decade of career under your belt, you'll learn how toxic it is when monocultures form. You'll learn about the blind spots. The exclusion. The lack of productive conflict from varying ideas.

And perhaps at that point you'll learn why "caring about people in tech" means caring that no people feel actively excluded from its prosperity.

Until then, your callousness makes you emphatically the sort of dime-a-dozen, utterly common, entirely unoriginal personalities that make me want to walk out of this industry and lock the door behind me forever.

Good luck on your journey.

GhotiFish5• 12 years ago

Really? Personally It just sounded like I wasn't invited.

though... that was because I did not read the title clearly.

_pius• 12 years ago

I usually don't bother with links to things that are phrased in such a way as to suggest support of segregationist policies. I don't care about women in tech. I care about people in tech.

So douchey.

serf2• 12 years ago

I feel exactly the same way, and i'm glad i'm not the only one.

If you want to fix scenarios that look segregationist, fix the root cause. Reinforcing one segregation that appears to be a polar opposite of what you have too much of is just as damaging. it's not a tipping scale scenario.

zem2• 12 years ago

this is a good read on the topic: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-society/a1345b36b91b

argumentum5• 12 years ago

Let me flip your argument around.

If you truly care about people in tech, you should applaud any well-meaning effort to get more people excited about tech, such as this, irrespective of how the event is phrased.

That this particular event is geared towards women doesn't prevent other events targeted to other groups: a conference for older founders, for example.

Moreover events geared towards underrepresented groups have a greater practical effect for getting people into tech, because people from these groups sometimes feel like they don't belong and avoid events like Startup School or PyCon.

I doubt, for instance, holding a "male founders conference" would have much of an effect: it's not like anyone from that demographic, like myself and probably yourself, feels alienated at tech events. But no one is stopping you from trying to organize such an event. It's just unlikely anyone will attend, since they'd have nothing to gain.

In the 90s, there was a networking group called The Indus Entrepreneurs, which aimed to help Indian immigrants start companies, get funding etc. Nowadays, the idea of having an tech group for Indian people seems ridiculous: because there are so many successful Indians in tech.

In 10 years, here's hoping that these efforts will make having a female founders conference seem just as ridiculous. But right now, caring about people in tech includes caring about getting more women into tech.

MartinCron4• 12 years ago

..phrased in such a way as to suggest support of segregationist policies

If that's what you think, then you have a pretty shallow understanding of the issue. That's OK. People have shallow understanding of all sorts of things. Maybe you should keep quiet about it instead of embarrassing yourself, though?

neilk• 12 years ago

Agreed. I saw someone post the link on Twitter, and it was very interesting. Skipped back to the beginning and Adora Cheung's story (HomeJoy) just blew me away.

Osaka• 12 years ago

Q the electric club music for the break!

Really good talk though.

drdeadringer2• 12 years ago

Granted I haven't met very many male SWE members... in fact none...

... but I'm amazed and saddened that this headline has gotten this far due to popular demand. "Please dear lord see how I and my company aren't sexist by watching this live-stream of our going over specifically-female founders".

ispivey• 12 years ago

This is probably a new HN record in mistakenly ascribing bad intentions, which is pretty impressive.

Perhaps people are interested in watching some awesome founders speak.

drdeadringer2• 12 years ago

people are interested in watching some awesome founders speak

Agreed.

jlukanta• 12 years ago

I wonder if anyone kept a note of the speeches?

beambot• 12 years ago

To all the people kvetching in the comments... this is the live stream for "YC's Female Founders Conference" [1]. That's why "female" is in the post title.

I'm an ardent supporter of the effort, and I hope (much like startup school) that YC is able to make it into an annual event! Very inspiring! Also, my wife is in attendance. I look forward to hearing her reactions later tonight. If the live stream is any indicator, it looks like a really great event.

[1] http://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-female-founders-c...

cheez6• 12 years ago

What if only 10% of women are interested in working in tech but 20% of men are interested? (Random numbers not based in reality). Does a 50/50 split make sense?

My personal experience is that there are fewer Black and Hispanic high tech workers than pretty much any other demographic, including women, if you get out of the big cities.

I wish the answers were clearer, but all I can say is that if women are actually discriminated against, then giving them their own space is OK.

For those who hire, do you pay women developers less than male developers of the same skill level?

I'd wager the answer is "no".

magicalist5• 12 years ago

What in the world does this have to do with the event or the parent comment? Do people really have no level of self-introspection to the fact that you're the one making the conversation about this? That your immediate response is to this instead of the actual content, and yet you feel compelled to share it with the world?

Nobody owes you a conference without the word "female" in the name, or one not featuring female founders speaking about their successes and failures. Get over it.

kangaroo53832• 12 years ago

It's not a conscious choice people make. It's a subjective perception issue, which is harder to fix. Example: In a room with a male and a female founder, most people will ask the male for technical help, while assuming the female is less competent technically. Interviews are highly subjective, so is wage determination.

wpietri4• 12 years ago

For those who hire, do you pay women developers less than male developers of the same skill level?

Skill level perception is influenced by gender, even for experts. [1] [2] Unless hiring managers are blinding the process by which they determine skill and/or pay, then they could well be paying women less even if they think they aren't.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full [2] http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903

patrickyeon• 12 years ago

When people start whining about events or programs like this, I like to send them off to read "When I Moved Abroad"[1], a blog post by that was like flipping a switch in my mind that suddenly made these things make so much more sense.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/it/2013/03/29/when-i-moved-abroad/

Dewie7• 12 years ago

As someone who's lived a little in another country, I'm not really impressed by made up analogies like this.

I don't really have a problem with women-only 'spaces', anyway, as long as they don't interfere with my schedule - like going to the gym and finding out that they are having a women-only day/evening.

(When I lived abroad I didn't know anyone in that city who was from my own country, during that whole stay. There were people from my own country, but I didn't bother to seek them out. The closest I got was other foreigners.)

parennoob• 12 years ago

As someone who has lived for fairly long periods in a country that is not mine, this is exactly the sort of thing I seek to avoid. I try to hang out with the people from the region, not people who I already can speak to in a familiar language. I try to absorb the local cultural contrasts and not try to shoehorn them into my own. ("Tell me again what the traditional Garistan Christmas cake is? " -- Maybe they don't celebrate Christmas? Could it just be possible that they belong to another culture / religion?)

Always sticking with your own lot and never completely opening up to a new culture (in my opinion) isolates you and makes you look standoffish.

Nursie• 12 years ago

That made up travel blog is silly. As another person that has lived in countries other than where I grew up, it sounds to me like a recipe for ghettoisation and continuing isolation rather than a good strategy for a happy life in another country.

DanielRibeiro2• 12 years ago

This conference was just amazing. It has amazing and insightful stories. If you don't believe me, just start watching from Jessica Mah's (from InDinero) inspiring tale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QDa...

joyeuse67013• 12 years ago

I feel like a lot of the knee jerk negativity comes from the implication that the event is 'good', 'great', 'inspiring' because of it being <under-represented group> only. Sort of has that liberal agenda, politically correct twang to it that really seems to exist in America, at least in this form. It gives a circle jerk like quality to it. I was personally uncomfortable with attending events in a minority only engineer group for the same reason.

On the flip side, there is an equally powerful emotional appeal to support an event like this when wife, daughter, girlfriend, female friend would like to attend. Though that might be more about the relationship of you and the person and less about the merits of the event.

rmrfrmrf3• 12 years ago

I feel like a lot of the knee jerk negativity comes from the implication that the event is 'good', 'great', 'inspiring' because of it being <under-represented group> only.

Since when is that a bad thing?

On the flip side, there is an equally powerful emotional appeal to support an event like this when wife, daughter, girlfriend, female friend would like to attend.

That's a very Christian take on the subject and one that more people need to get rid of. A woman is not "made of man"; a woman's worth does not come from her relationship to a man. No one's worth comes from someone else's existence.

staticelf3• 12 years ago

I dislike the fact that females get a lot more attention because of their gender. If you want true equality you've to start treating everybody as equals and giving extra space for some just doesn't cut it.

I see this all the time in my country (I don't know if this is the case here) but females get a lot more attention in basically all areas of society and I don't think much good can come from that.

Well, I guess I'm just trying to write as a man in the extremely feministic country of Sweden I kind of feel left out and viewed as "not as important" as the counter gender. Since I am quite young and the feministic views here just has grown stronger with the years, this feeling has grown on me since I started elementary school.

Now in my twenties, I don't think it's that weird I think feminism is possibly one of the worst phenomenas in my country and the world in general.

onmydesk6• 12 years ago

Fundamentally its irrational. And I note comments like this are voted down without any rational response to the perfectly valid points made. I dislike sexism and am alarmed at its acceptance.

dandrews3• 12 years ago

staticelf, most of us here want that "true equality" that you refer to. But the unassailable fact of the matter is that we don't have it today.

Look around you: assuming you're in IT, unless you work in a truly remarkable place men considerably outnumber women. We (and I mean the egalitarian "we") have to do something about that.

I'd welcome your suggestion. But "start treating everybody as equals" is a goal, and not very prescriptive. How do we get from point A to point B?

(I upvoted you because your discourse is reasoned and polite.)

onmydesk6• 12 years ago

"men considerably outnumber women. We (and I mean the egalitarian "we") have to do something about that."

Why? What is that evidence of? You assume sexism presumably. Men and women are different and have predispositions to excel in different areas.

You know what would be really weird? A 50/50 split. Why is that the definition of correct?

Why are so few people rational about this?

vezzy-fnord• 12 years ago

Might I intervene for a moment?

You're confusing equal opportunity with equal representation. I don't know under what definition of "true equality" you operate in, but typically it refers to the former.

gcb02• 12 years ago

In my office, the ratio of man to women is 1:1 under 24. After that it skews.

The last 3 female co-workers we had to replace decided to be full time moms.

So, please, explain how lowering the expectations of every woman that soldiers on and not go be full time moms/wifes is improving our lives?

This is nothing but a short term gain with longer term side effects. A few women now cling to those handicaps to reap the easy benefits, while contributing to the overall notion that woman can't still be equal because, well, they still need the handicap.

But go on. convince yourself of what you want and enjoy the brief spotlight.

staticelf3• 12 years ago

Yes I realize that most of the people want that. But I believe that if we try and take the quick route it will over time only make the situation worse.

Of course, you are correct in your statement that men outnumber women in the field of IT. But I disagree with the statement that we have to do anything special about that unless that special thing is the golden rule to treat others how you want be treated yourself.

I don't want to be put aside, or left behind just because there is less women in the job that I may apply to in the future. So I treat any such endeavor to endorse gender-promotion as a hostile action, because it is unless the goal isn't equality. I want people to have equal chance and the route we're on now is not heading in that way at all.

The goal is clear and so should the message be, the goal will be reached as any other goal gets reached. You take one step in the right direction and educate people on why it's important to treat each other as equals. If this path won't change, I will get older with the same views on the society I have now. Who knows, perhaps I will employ people in the future and I will bring my experience with it. As will a lot of other people with the same experience of getting put aside, left behind or not valued as they should because of their gender.

From my experience and if it carries on and get worse do you really think women (in this case) will benefit from that? All it says to me right now is to have suspicion against women in IT, since they're getting all kind of help to be promoted and their skills or experience may very well not be real. How may I know the difference? Will she deliver? All those questions and certainly there are a few will just make it easier for the employer to pick the employ the other gender. This is as well as true for women-dominated work environments.

I'm not saying I actually will do that if I become an employer, but as it is right now that's unfortunately the way it's headed and is the hard truth. There is a lot of people that feels like this, probably on both sides of the gender. Even if we get downvoted on community sites just because right now our thoughts are "wrong" it won't change the fact that endorsing a gender in the name of equality is not just a cruel thing to do, it's counter effective. It is easy to breed hate, it's a lot harder to get rid of it. Trust me, I am one of those people that will hate if it just continues.

theknown99• 12 years ago

unless you work in a truly remarkable place men considerably outnumber women.

That in no way points to inequality. It points to the fact that men and women want different things, and have different strengths and weaknesses.

The idea that there aren't as many women in IT as men because of some sort of discrimination is laughable.

facepalm9• 12 years ago

Men outnumber women in IT because most IT jobs sucks, and women don't want jobs that suck. Also, women don't have to take jobs that suck, therefore they don't go into IT.

The perception of IT has been distorted by some glamorous startup success stories and their photo galleries of comfy office space with free cappuccino. The daily reality of most software engineers is much different.

Time will perhaps show the truth of those words - I'm sure you'll disagree for now.

enneff7• 12 years ago

The Swedish male is doing fine. You might not be, personally, but it's not because you're discriminated against. You describe your country as "extremely feministic" as if it's a bad thing, but how can that be when there is still such a strong gender imbalance?

http://qz.com/37036/in-sweden-women-make-up-45-of-parliament...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-18/top-female-swedish-...

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/dec/12/research-lac...

wyager• 12 years ago

Just because one group is marginalized in some way doesn't make it OK to intentionally marginalize another group in what can only be called retaliation.

I personally subscribe to the ethos of "two wrongs don't make a right".

PhasmaFelis3• 12 years ago

I dislike the fact that females get a lot more attention because of their gender. If you want true equality you've to start treating everybody as equals and giving extra space for some just doesn't cut it.

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread."

If you want true equality, you must help the downtrodden to rise up and stand as equals. These days, when someone in a deep hole is given a ladder to help them climb out, it's popular for bystanders on the sidewalk above to cry "It's not fair! Why don't I get a ladder? I'm being treated unequally!" Well, no. You don't get a ladder because you're not in a hole.

That's an oversimplification, of course. We all have our own holes, of varying depths, and for all our best efforts there still aren't enough ladders to go around, nor enough people to distribute them. I'm not sure what the solution is. But I'm pretty sure that demanding that we smash all the ladders isn't it.

ttdi• 12 years ago

this comment literally has no redeeming qualities

EliRivers• 12 years ago

I am awfully backwards in this; I still use the common dictionary definition of "feminism", meaning "advocating social and political equality of genders", which I understand has now fallen out of common use.

On the assumption that you mean something else when you say "feminism", what do you mean?

Crake24• 12 years ago

I want to move to Europe someday (possibly), but while I love how liberal a lot of the place is and admire their strong social safety net, the tendency to shift discrimination around from one demographic to the next instead of trying to eliminate it completely is something I find quite alarming. :/

facepalm9• 12 years ago

Women have always been more important than men, because they bring the babies into the world. That is why men become cannon fodder - they are expendable.

What irks me about modern feminism is the claim that women have it so bad in society, when really they have privileges everywhere. Including less pressure to make a good income, and therefore more freedom in choosing jobs (jobs that are more fun often pay less good). Some of those less attractive jobs include IT...

I mean I think it is OK if women have privileges - I've watched my wife give birth. That makes up for a lot of things. But to give privileges and then be accused is not appropriate.

female_founder• 12 years ago

Looks like a great event. Somewhat ironically, I'm a female founder and had an invite to do go, but couldn't go due to childcare.

sunir• 12 years ago

I don't think that's a gendered issue. It's hard to be a founder and raise kids at the same time. Kids are a startup--a human startup. Good luck!

frankdenbow• 12 years ago

Has been a great set of speakers so far. I connect most with Elli's experiences fighting through all the "No"'s founders receive to get to the point of fully believing what you are doing is going to work if executed as you understand it.

onmydesk6• 12 years ago

When is the blue eyed founders conference? The left handed? Its an interesting watch for sure but what the hell. Pandering to a fashionable discrimination. When we all get over this as a society we'll be shaking our heads at it.

danielha2• 12 years ago

Replace "female" with "European founders." Would it still make sense? Is it ok to hold a conference for a demographic with common challenges and opportunities -- rooted in the fact they're from Europe?

You're sad.

facepalm9• 12 years ago

I suppose it would make sense to educate founders from Europe about legal issues, cultural differences that make trip up in the US and stuff like that.

The female founders conference doesn't seem to be about "how to better get along with men", though.

arbutus• 12 years ago

I didn't know left handed people faced regular discrimination and sexual harassment.

Rajiv_N• 12 years ago

Diane Greene is amazing! I think I can listen to her speak all day long

enlightenedfool3• 12 years ago

When is the next Male Founders Conference? or is it already done?

melindajb• 12 years ago

that's the one they have every year that's nearly 100% male.

carbocation• 12 years ago

Is this over already? I'm in the US and just getting "Please stand by."

namenotrequired10• 12 years ago

It's not over yet, have you tried the livestream link? http://www.livestream.com/femalefounders

EDIT Now it is over.

thesimpsons10225• 12 years ago

Does anyone have any proof that there are less women founders proportionally than men? How do we know it just doesn't boil down to the fact there are less females in the industry as a whole? And are women actively being discriminated against or do they just have other priorities than founding startups?

lukasm• 12 years ago

Maybe just women are smarter and they know that median outcome of startup is a failure?

thesimpsons10225• 12 years ago

or they are more risk averse because they want to save to start families.

ForHackernews• 12 years ago

Fewer.

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/f...

thesimpsons10225• 12 years ago

how have I never heard this?

_xhok• 12 years ago

Never mind that this is called "Female Founders." I'm male and found this helpful.

gcb02• 12 years ago

highlight how silly it is to be sexist, doesn't it?

wetafur• 12 years ago

The goal is to attract female participation, not to deter male participation.

msoad• 12 years ago

*White Female Founders

brandnewlow• 12 years ago

Pretty sure the founder of Homejoy spoke and is not white.

danielha2• 12 years ago

This is even not close to true nor is it witty. You should stop making jokes on the internet.

pg• 12 years ago

The event starts at about 37:20.

DanielRibeiro2• 12 years ago

Direct link to that point in time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDaqt9NzDUc&feature=share&t=3...

wglb• 12 years ago

These are seriously awesome talks with lots of pointers. Very well worth watching.

spirefly• 12 years ago

I was surprised it was only open to female attendees. Having the female role models is both important to females AND males since they need to support the inclusion of females. (And not spank the behinds of founders in VC meetings!!!)

wpietri4• 12 years ago

Both experiences are useful.

I attended AdaCamp last year and it was fascinating. In previous AdaCamps they'd tried mixed-gender stuff. At mine, though, they did an "allies" track for guys (and any women who wanted to pop in).

It felt a little weird being excluded from the main track, but honestly, it made sense to me from the moment I arrived. Suddenly, for the first time at a conference, I was part of a small, visible minority. It was uncomfortable. Everybody was perfectly nice, but I was acutely aware that I did not look like everybody else.

That made it easy for me to imagine how empowering an experience it could be to for the women at AdaCamp to experience a women-only environment at the conference. It reminded me of the time I rode in Critical Mass: suddenly, because bikes vastly outnumbered cars, I felt free and safe in a way I had never experienced biking in the city.

So now I'm entirely in favor of things like this. To me, it's all part of tidying up the legacy of millennia of oppression of women. In 50 years, I hope it's not necessary. But for now, I say it's great.

erichocean3• 12 years ago

My wife applied and I was surprised by the unseriousness of the application process.

If you've gone through the online YC application process, imagine you dumbed that down for a 10 year old who only had 10 minutes to complete it and only had to answer one question, along the lines of "Why is America the best country on Earth?"[0]

Here's the rejection email my wife got for those that are curious:

Thank you for applying to the Female Founders Conference. Unfortunately we couldn't accept you this year. There was such a large number of applications that we had to turn away hundreds of people we would otherwise have accepted.

We will be streaming the event live on our website, and are looking into options for even larger venues in the future. We really hope you will apply again.

Best,

Y Combinator Team

http://femalefoundersconference.org

[0] Bonus points for anyone who gets that reference. :)

argumentum5• 12 years ago

Occam's razor suggests they simply got a lot more applications than they anticipated.

natasham25• 12 years ago

It was a very similar application to the Startup School application.

erichocean3• 12 years ago

Okay, good to know.

In all seriousness, if that's the application, both the Startup School and the Female Founders Conference should just do a randomized allocation.

tbfrench• 12 years ago

[0] excellent quote from an excellent movie.

br78• 12 years ago

I thought it was from Newsroom but someone else said "film"

erichocean3• 12 years ago

It's from Thank You for Smoking.

facepalm9• 12 years ago

I suppose less is at stake when admitting someone to a conference compared to admitting someone to YC. Therefore it makes sense to have simpler questions.

mbesto2• 12 years ago

pg, please thank Jessica for putting this event on. My girlfriend is on her way to starting her first company after years successfully being one of the few women in the private equity sector as well as her graduate program at Stanford. I've only just watched the keynote from Jessica and this is exactly the message that not only she, but I, need to hear about starting a company (tech and/or financial for that matter). Hearing these stories builds confidence and it's what both of us need.

jblow• 12 years ago

Note the extreme lack of women commenting in this thread, as well as the lack of discussion of any of the substance of the livestream.

This thread is 100% nerdy dudes feeling offended by this event, plus other dudes attempting to counter this.

Is not this thread itself indicative of a giant problem?

berrypicker• 12 years ago

Here's the problem summarized by an old-time female hacker:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software

Whenever gender and software appears in a discussion, the same bs comes out every time. It's so predictable now you can just skip these sort of thread.

nhangen• 12 years ago

ad hominem + sweeping generality FTW

Seriously though, I am not a proponent of gender restricted events, but I have not commented on this particular thread because I wanted to watch the content first, and it's not really the place for such discussions.

That said, others may feel differently, having not participated in prior conversations on this topic, and thus, the label you've applied to opponents is unnecessary and unfair.

Crake24• 12 years ago

I like how being a man is considered an insult these days. Woman who disagrees with feminism? Damn men!

Crake24• 12 years ago

This thread is 100% nerdy dudes feeling offended

"anyone who disagrees with me is a man! "

There are plenty of women here. You're just choosing to ignore and erase their existence because it invalidates your religion.

facepalm9• 12 years ago

Men are not entitled to have an opinion?

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