Please don't use quoting conventions to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. That was seriously misleading, and a destructive trick to pull.

Although that's not an explicit rule in the site guidelines, I think it's pretty clear that your comment broke more than one of the rules that are: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's also a flamewar tropes to switch some words around and act like the person said that when they didn't. Please don't do flamewar tropes on HN. Clichés are tedious and uninteresting to begin with, and the flamewar ones are poison.

Edit: it also looks like your account has been using HN primarily for flamewar. We ban accounts that do that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Yes, but at least honest. I prefer honest over a person hiding something / not telling the truth (she was hiding much more about the science part, that it’s rapamicyn that she’s testing).

I really don't think you're making a good argument. When a female founder says she's looking for female investors we all know the underlying reasons for that - women in the start-up space face challenges that men don't face and having allies and mentors to navigate those challenges is valuable. If a male founder wants to prioritize male investors that's fine too - but I would be interested to know why they feel that's necessary.

Pragmatic probably. Might just be easier.

Over decades I’ve Seen lots of sales people target demographics in illegal ways. Mostly insurance and age. Basically impossible to prove unless your put it in writing.

Still one does normally advertise such things.

> I heavily prioritized female investors. Every time a (male) investor converted, I asked them to help me find female investors.

This is the text I'm seeing on my chrome /mobile android browser, would be funny if we were being shown different versions, but it seems as if you might have made a mistake there.