The male-only version of the Female Founders Conference
Today, Jessica Livingston and Y-Combinator announced the Female Founders Conference, a conference designed to help female founders be better prepared to build successful startups. This is is presumably somewhat a response to some of the bad press (misleading though it may have been) Paul Graham recently got in response to some statements he made about female hackers, although I would not be surprised if this is something Jessica and Paul have considered doing for a while now.
Predictably, people on Hacker News immediately started in on the same argument one hears every single time a “women only” event is introduced. “This is gender discrimination,” they say, “if we had a Male Founders Conference, would THAT be acceptable?” The presumption is of course, that the male version of the “Female Founders Conference” would be the “Male Founders Conference” - a conference focused on improving