Received this in my inbox.<\/p>\n
“As one of the most influential women in the Web 2.0 right now, it is my pleasure to invite you to participate to the\u00a0Women\u2019s Forum Global Meeting 2009″<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n What is wrong with this statement?<\/p>\n 1. It sounds like spam. Influential according to who?<\/p>\n 2. It’s impersonal, if anything I’ve co-founded a very non-web2.0 business.<\/p>\n 3. Tickets are 2.5K<\/p>\n 4. Any event named XX Forum will receive a polite “I’d rather be dead”<\/p>\n 5. Any women-centric event is unrealistic in my field of work.<\/p>\n Someone please fix this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Received this in my inbox. “As one of the most influential women in the Web 2.0 right now, it is my pleasure to invite you to participate to the\u00a0Women\u2019s Forum Global Meeting 2009″ What is wrong with this statement? 1. It sounds like spam. Influential according to who? 2. It’s impersonal, if anything I’ve co-founded… Continue reading Stupid women events<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women-in-tech","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-fV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}