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Any harsh feedback, if given, would be coming from all of us, and a mixed panel would be harder to accuse of sexism.

Nope, a hostile founder/CEO will pick the men out of the panel and sick the mob on them. The women on the panel are either oppressed or anti-feminism. The mob doesn't care and won't hear the whole story.




> The women on the panel are either oppressed or anti-feminism.

"internalized misogyny" is the term you are looking for.


Yep, that's why I used the word "harder" instead of "impossible". At that point, the situation would be within my threshold of acceptable risk.




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