This sounds more like the plot of a reality TV show than a y-combinator company. It's definitely exploiting people, and reading the article made me feel dirty and a little sad for society.
Society is really becoming very intolerant because people don't conform to their little bubbles.
>>> But if this isn't insulting to women in tech
Who is "women in tech"? It's not a person that you can insult. Why "women in tech" should have single opinion about anything and be - all of them, collectively - insulted by something? And why, if some woman or multiple women are insulted by this, we shouldn't wait for them to tell us if they are insulted and listen what they are insulted by, instead of trying to guess it and wield that imaginary insult as a weapon?
My point is just because he's not single and not the target market, he shouldn't be asking for a ban on a dating scheme.
I'm single and find the whole idea of "flying in women to meet geeks" to be a bit strange, but this idea that it should be banned is ludicrous.
There's too much "I don't like this" or "I don't understand this" so let's have some entity ban it.
I have nothing to do with whatever these people are doing.