Also, a smart vibrator from last year, also by a woman founder:
https://sextechguide.com/news/mysteryvibe-crescendo-app-upda...
The lewdness thing is inconsistent but clearly has nothing whatsoever to do with gender bias or sexism.
"My team rejoiced and celebrated. A month later our excitement and preparations were cut short when we were unexpectedly informed that the administrators at CES and CTA were rescinding our award and subsequently that we would not be allowed to showcase Osé, or even exhibit at CES 2019."
I.e the product was BANNED. Really seems that in this HN thread people are bending themselves backwards trying to find any other explanation for the events EXCEPT for sexism and/or discrimination. It is as if people have a priori decided that sexism can't occur.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18872924
You are bending yourself backward trying to ignore that sexism or discrimination may have not been the issue here.
If theses others products were there, why wasn't they banned too if there is sexism?
That article is only one side of the story, a side that clearly want to prove that sexism and discrimination was at play here. It's fine but it only tell argument in favor of that hypothesis.
In this case, maybe her stands was relative to her winning. That would means she could no longer showcase, but wouldn't actually be disallowed to showcase (except by the deadline, which isn't sexist I can assure you ;) ).
There's still so much sexism in the world, particularly in entrepreneurship, but blaming everything on it is dangerous and can actually hurt the cause.
I'm not privy to the details of this story and there are always many possible explanations for any given set of observations. I can therefore not know for sure that the explanation is sexism, but it does fit the bill. Those who discard that as even a possibility are biased.
You are the only one discarding possibilities here.
As far as I can tell, the VR porn and the "sex robot for men" were not given awards either. They were just present on the CES.
we were unexpectedly informed that the administrators at CES and CTA were rescinding our award and subsequently that we would not be allowed to showcase Osé, or even exhibit at CES 2019