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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, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:05PM (4 children)
You are being Completely. Fucking. Disingenuous. From TFA:
I think you're just too chickenshit to challenge gaslighting asshole managers themselves, the individuals who are wronging these women.
When somebody is being sexually harassed, you report it to the boss of the individual perpetrating the sexual harassment. That is what you do with sexual harassment. In my experience, that is what needs to be done in order to see justice. If the gaslighting asshole manager continues his unacceptable behavior, he will be fired in any company with competent management. Consistently in these cases that are used as examples of how all assigned males in technical careers are engaging in sexual harassment in order to prevent womyn-born-womyn from learning technical skills, it is management, HR, CxOs, all completely non-technical staff, who are complicit in enabling the culture of sexual harassment in these places.
What you do not do is seek to blame an entire gender for the actions of one or two individuals. If you're too dense to understand why, here is why. If you blame an entire gender for the actions of individuals, those individuals will never be brought to justice. You are missing the target badly!
It's clear that what this article and ones like it seek to do is to paint an entire gender caste (gender assigned at birth regardless of lived gender, body parts, or current legal gender) in an entire profession, and not the profession of either the perpetrator or victim, as a stereotype.
The entire article is talking about “entrepreneurs” being sexually harassed by other “entrepreneurs.” You are warping the fact that these are companies whose primary product is tech to imply that it is assigned males in a technical profession who are using the weapon of sexual harassment against women.
That is wrong, and you know it.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:55PM (3 children)
So will you stop blaming all cisgender women for your problems now, Kurenai? :D :D :D :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday July 06 2017, @01:19PM (2 children)
I'm glad you asked! The answer is: I will around the time feminism stops holding all assigned males collectively and severally accountable for the actions of some asshole investment bankers! :D :D :D :D
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 06 2017, @05:39PM (1 child)
Well, this feminist doesn't, so there's a nice hole in your stuffed shirt there. This one's also on board with reducing the harm the patriarchy does to our boys and men, everything from circumcision to the toxic sanity-eroding bullshit they get told about never asking for help or showing emotion.
But do go on with your blanket hatred of the lot of us. Obviously we're all man-hating TERFs with battle axes mounted over our fireplaces, lined with trophies of severed scrotums and foreskins. 9_9
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday July 06 2017, @07:05PM
I think it goes like this: if the lifeguard at a pool yells “No running on the deck!” and you're not running, s/he's not talking to you! :)