Is it just me or are all thee finance bro costume memes kind of uninspiring because they are all white guys? I just saw that like only 5% of VCs were women. It’s a fun meme for the guys but a sad reminder for me of how far we still need to go to feel like we belong…

Seems like a joke to make fun of those guys! Not social commentary…

This is a satire of exactly the problem you are describing

I’m sorry but this is a hilariously insignificant thing to be upset about. Good lord.

Yeah, I don’t think these are real costumes. They’re jokes AT those finance bros

The point is to poke fun at those guys. If it was a woman instead, would your commentary be how offensive it is that they're poking fun at female VCs while being statistically inaccurate?

Not so long ago the doctor costumes always featured men, the only option for anything in the medical field for women was “sexy nurse”. Very much the same thing here.

So, part of the reason this is funny is because most guys have literally no sense of style on their own. These costume memes are poking fun of the sheer lack of originality among certain groups. The reason there isn’t a female version of this costume likely has less to do with sexism/misogyny than it does with the fact that women in most white-collar jobs don’t all dress alike and don’t have an easily identifiable “uniform” like these dudes do.

Now, if you’d been around back in the 80s when women were really starting to join the ranks of upwardly-mobile young execs, it was a different story. Knee-length skirt, nude pantyhose, pussy-bow blouse, sensible pumps (or Reeboks & sneakers if you commuted by public transit), and a boxy, jewel-tone blazer with “statement” necklace. If memes had existed back then, it could have easily been one.

Dude! If I had to make a product that I need to sell, I would follow the 80/20 rule. So yes, the products will be geared to men because that’s how the industry is right now. Your issue shouldn’t be this manufacturer but rather with the policy folks and companies that propagate this divide

Yeah I know what you mean OP. For some reason, our society (which includes us too!) seems to just see women as afterthoughts regardless of how much progress we make. What you’re feeling is very valid, just like other folks who don’t feel the same are also valid. Different strokes for different folks. Know that I hear you and I feel the same most of the time - kind of hopelessly sad that things don’t seem to change from someone’s 68 year old doctor mom being called a nurse in her time to todays female resident still being called a “sexy nurse”.

F here. It’s hilarious, I shared with my VC.

The female equivalent of this outfit? Oh wait. I have a sample of 2 people - out of maybe 100 VCs that I met, in 20 years. So it’s nearly impossible to stereotype a female VC.