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Their stories came out slowly, even hesitantly, at first. Then in a rush.
One female entrepreneur recounted how she had been propositioned by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist while seeking a job with him, which she did not land after rebuffing him. Another showed the increasingly suggestive messages she had received from a start-up investor. And one chief executive described how she had faced numerous sexist comments from an investor while raising money for her online community website.
What happened afterward was often just as disturbing, the women told The New York Times. Many times, the investor's firms and colleagues ignored or played down what had happened when the situations were brought to their attention. Saying anything, the women were warned, might lead to ostracism.
Now some of these female entrepreneurs have decided to take that risk. More than two dozen women in the technology start-up industry spoke to The Times in recent days about being sexually harassed. Ten of them named the investors involved, often providing corroborating messages and emails, and pointed to high-profile venture capitalists such as Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, who did not dispute the accounts.
The disclosures came after the tech news site The Information reported that female entrepreneurs had been preyed upon by a venture capitalist, Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital. The new accounts underscore how sexual harassment in the tech start-up ecosystem goes beyond one firm and is pervasive and ingrained. Now their speaking out suggests a cultural shift in Silicon Valley, where such predatory behavior had often been murmured about but rarely exposed.
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(Score: 2) by inertnet on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:36AM (6 children)
To be fair, those guys that harassed them probably aren't 'tech' either, but management making a living off 'tech'. And harassing obviously. They probably think if they do this to a hundred women, surely one or two will 'byte'. They're not concerned about the other 98, those are forgotten immediately after they refuse to play along.
Most real techs are not even in a position to act like this.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @12:57PM (5 children)
To be honest, I have mostly tuned out these so-called sexual harassment and unwelcome/unwanted advances complaints. Everything from "He was looking at me wrong" to "I didn't get invited to the after hours drinking party" has become sexual harassment. I once had a female coworker, who knew I was married, walk up to me in my office while I was sitting there on the phone with my wife and straddle my leg while looking into my eyes, smiling. She often tried to get me to drive her home after work. She would tell me whenever she "forgot" to wear any underwear. Did I go whining to managers? Hell no. I took it as a compliment and moved on with my life.
Seriously ladies, if you apply for a job and your prospective boss is a total asshole for ANY reason, do you REALLY want to work there? I've had insecure asshole bosses before and I don't think it would be a great selling point for employment. If your boss makes it clear that you need to sleep with him to keep your job, file a complaint; but if all you got is "He was staring at my boobs" then you better hope I'm not on your jury.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:08PM (4 children)
Your one anecdote about the wiles of women pale by comparison to the volumes of harassment women undergo every day. To paraphrase and slightly misapply comedian Chris Rock, he says women get offered dick every day. 'Can I get that for you? (Would you like some dick?)' Whereas us men are like 'Damn this must be my lucky day' when an invitation falls into our laps.
When the whole effing world is stacked against you because of how you where born you have to make drastic efforts to survive. Since we preach every person for themselves as gospel in this damned country, don't cry foul over the methods some must employ to remain afloat. After all, they show the same concern for you as you do for them. You're just an object to extract money from.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:10PM (1 child)
My sympathy will improve when the last woman on Earth for the last time cries her way or bats her eyes to get out of a speeding ticket. Or when the last woman goes on her last date to get a free meal. Life is not fair. Both sexes use their advantages to their own benefit. Whining to the New York Times is just another aspect of it.
And when they cannot politely decline, there is a problem. Otherwise it's a cryfest.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @06:49PM
And do we have any figures on how many white men DON'T get pulled over in the first place precisely because they're white men? How do we know that woman wasn't pulled over because the police officer is actually a creep and hopes one woman will give him a blow job to get out of a ticket? How many men date just for sex? How many stoop to rape drugs? How often do you hear of a gang rape of a man by women? You ignore a vast amount of evidence because it doesn't fit your "life was fine x number of years ago" narrative. Well obviously life wasn't so fine or else we wouldn't be in this situation now.
The one sane thing you've said all thread. Men have used their advantages over millennia to create an environment where women where repressed into baby making machines with no or less rights than the males. So women have had to retaliate in ways that have gotten them labeled as witches and whores to survive in a world that's hostile to them. Welcome to the world YOU want.
You completely ignore the fact that being propositioned in the first place is the problem, not that women aren't just 'manning up' and telling men to go fuck off. Go fuck off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @06:45PM (1 child)
That sounds an awful lot like conspiratorial nonsense. Present your rigorous scientific evidence that it's actually true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:25PM
I think bradley13 linked a few research papers in the GP of this drivel. Google it yourself, I refuse to spoon feed you that which you won't believe anyway.