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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.
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday July 05 2017, @01:09PM (8 children)
Can't you at least come up with a troll that isn't so stupid? I think what I find most obnoxious here is the sheer juvenile and amateur nature of the posts. Here, you combine a painful leading question (no one has accused "The Information" of lying) with a ridiculous argument from authority fallacy (we must accept "The Information" definition of "tech company" because they "seem to be a tech journal"). Is your life really so empty that you can only find entertainment by trolling people with empty insults and arguments so bad, they wouldn't hold up in a high school debate club? Don't you have some computer game to play or bar to get drunk at?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 05 2017, @06:16PM (7 children)
How many times did you actually fail informal logic, khallow? bradley says that what the FA says is not true. Does he mean that they do not know what they are talking about, or, as usual, as the craven misogynist he is, is he trying to change the subject from the fact of sexual harassment being rife in tech companies to the precise definition of "tech"? Actually, this does resemble a typical khallow move, and the obvious rebuttal is that bradleyXIII is mendcious, is in fact accusing "The Information" of lying, and probably has personal issues that motivate him to undertake this entire line of dissemblance.
I hope you feel more adult now, khallow, now that you really understand what is going on. Sexism is a culture, and it is the denying that your "industry" is affected by it is to defend sexism. I am rather disgusted by bradley13, but then I think, maybe he is not "the 13th Bradley", but instead "Bradley who is 13". At that age, well, understandable behavior, if nonetheless still unacceptable.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday July 05 2017, @08:35PM (3 children)
Undeniably.
No.
Here's the problem. We're not talking about technical professionals, e.g. server admins, programmers, etc. You absolutely are confusing the issue by continuing to attempt to draw attention back to the technical professions. We're talking about investment bankers and managers. Those are different professions.
You are being mendacious by creating confusion about the profession that has the culture of sexism. Your mendacity enables those people to continue abusing women.
If management and HR are unresponsive when we call out sexual harassment that we see, all we can do is leave. How does that solve the problem? The sexual harassers remain, more warm bodies take our places. You are attempting to hold people who are powerless accountable for the actions of those with power. Do you not see the problem?
Let me point out another problem in TFA.
Note how this passage creates the same confusion you are attempting to create. This passage directly confuses the lack of womyn-born-womyn in technical careers with the sexual harassment perpetrated by these investment bankers and managers. Why are there no womyn-born-womyn in tech? Well, the media has done a pretty good job convincing them that they'll just be sexually harassed by those misogynerds! So they go into banking and management, where they are then sexually harassed!
Both you and the media are being stunningly disingenuous about this issue. It would almost seem as though you want more women to be victimized and driven out by sexual harassment. Are you in management by chance? Are you an investment banker on the side, perhaps a hobby you've taken up in your 2,400 years on this planet? Do you like sexually harassing women, and is it convenient for you every time technical professionals take the blame for your sleazy behavior around women? What else could motivate you to be complicit in this confusion? Just asking after all….
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 05 2017, @11:25PM
Different professions, but not a different industry. Why do you defend bradley13's attempted equivocation?
I enjoy your rants, kurenai, but you really need to look up "mendacious". I am not defending sexism anywhere, especially that experienced by yourself. I am just saying that trying to say this is not about tech companies does do exactly that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @02:40PM (1 child)
He's not mendacious. He's just a pedantic idiot.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday July 06 2017, @03:00PM
Fair enough.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 06 2017, @01:18AM (2 children)
And once again, a complete waste of time. How many wives have you beaten? And will you ever stop?
Holy logic, Batman! Maybe you should have inquired first before saying something stupid?
I get that you're trolling. I just would like you to do something else instead rather than shitting on articles that otherwise have interesting commentary.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday July 06 2017, @04:13AM (1 child)
Perhaps you missed this gem:
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=20392&page=1&cid=535136#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
That is our Anti-social Patriachial Warrior, or APW, bradley of the slightly more than a dozen, as he is known around the docks.
khallow, once again, you are in over your head. Your tribalism is leading you down a path to destruction. It is eating your mind, destroying your ability to reason, and asking you out because you might be a good addition to our coding team! (Wink, wink, say no more, say no more!)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 06 2017, @12:33PM
No, but apparently you did. There are two choices there not one. "Flat-out wrong" is given as the first choice which you completely ignored. The AC you replied to hadn't "called them liars". Neither did bradley13 in your quote.
Further, let us note that you made the claim before bradley13's post. It was then and now unfounded.
You're wasting my time once again. Your post is just noise. It reminds me of the sophists who would show up occasionally in Plato's treatises as ignorant buffoons. Too bad we don't have a Socrates to more effectively deal with the noise you bring.
Once again, we see you bringing the same problems you've brought for the past few years. You might have a valid point in that mess somewhere, but it's so concealed in a ridiculous pile of fallacies that it's not worth the bother to care. You clearly aren't stupid as a person. Why can't you just reason rather than being a dick?