This is why I'd avoid doing "pro women" events in general. If it goes well nobody cares, if you slip up then everyone jumps all over you and calls you a sexist. There's no win, no benfit.

Just avoid that entire area, the entire topic. There's no rational discourse that can be had.

I think we all learned that after the "protests" over that public safety briefing a few years ago where essentially a [male] police officer suggested women could avoid some harrasment by exposing less, and it caused a "national debate," and protests across the US.

I'm all for more women in tech. I just don't like most of the other people who also feel that way, they're very sexist in their own right (but they consider their sexism rightous which makes it even worse).

I seriously doubt if it was a women CEO we'd even be talking about identical comments.