 What's with all the articles about scoring with women?
lsc: this is part of the general 'frat boy club' feeling that I think YC might have.  Hell, even PG says he prefers to go with athletes.I think this is driving off some people we probably don't want to drive off.I went to one of the YC presentations a while back, and I took my girl (She's an embedded systems programmer who is actually a /whole lot/ nerdier than I am;  both in the sense that she is more skilled than I am with technology, and in the sense that she is less socially skilled than I am.)  Anyhow, one of the founders was impressed by her, and wanted to recruit her.  She ended up meeting the guy the next day, and my girl was really irritated, because the guy trying to recruit her kept going on about how they needed a woman to help make things move more smoothly on a social level, to add feminine energy to the startup, and other bullshit like that, rather than respecting her (rather impressive) credentials as a technical person.I mean, the guy ended up losing out on what would have been an excellent employee because he couldn't turn off his preconceived notions after meeting and talking to a person.That's the thing about stereotypes.  We're all a little bit racist, and we're all a little bit sexist, but if you can't turn that off after someone proves that they understand what they are talking about, you have a problem that will cost you money.