A Backlash Builds Against Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley
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#2And if that kills Silicon Valley?
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#3The biggest issue here is not that Dave is a creep and that
he has been let go.
The biggest issue is that the leaders of this 500 Startups organization let this go on for years without taking action.
Who are the people who let their organization's logo and name appear in this guy's slides together with the words "GET YOU LAID (=SEX)"?
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/dmc500hats/how-to-pitch-a-...
It does not matter if they are men or women. THEY ARE COMPLICIT in this mess.
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#4Now that women can mostly route around the venture industry by doing crowdfunding, have the demographics of teams that raise money changed significantly? Already one of the biggest ICOs, Tezos, is run by a female entrepreneur, and so is the upcoming AI Gang ICO, but I don't know of any overall statistics.
I wonder to what extent, if any, these scandals are coming out now due to things like AngelList and ERC-20 being viable-ish funding options.
Re: A Backlash Builds Against Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley
#5The biggest issue here is not that Dave is a creep and that he has been let go. The biggest issue is that the leaders of this 500 Startups organization let this go on for years without taking action. Who are the people who let their organization's logo and name appear in this guy's slides together with the words "GET YOU LAID (=SEX)"? https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/dmc500hats/how-to-pitch-a-... It does not matter…
Slide 12 is creepy enough; 14 is over the top; 16 is perverted.
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#6The fact that a backlash against self-evidently disgusting behavior needs to 'build' is disturbing.
Re: A Backlash Builds Against Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley
#7The biggest issue here is not that Dave is a creep and that he has been let go. The biggest issue is that the leaders of this 500 Startups organization let this go on for years without taking action. Who are the people who let their organization's logo and name appear in this guy's slides together with the words "GET YOU LAID (=SEX)"? https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/dmc500hats/how-to-pitch-a-... It does not matter…
Is this real? This seems like some sort of poor excuse for a joke.
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#8I'd love it if someone with the skills could do a sentiment analysis of all the comments under SV sexism/sexual harassment articles posted to HN, and quantify the amount of denialism versus recognition there is, as well as graph whether there is at least a downward trend in denialism, whether the tipping point mentioned in the article is happening.
On this topic I've been disappointed in HN more often than not. HN users pride themselves on objectivity, but sadly much of it is ditched in favor of defensiveness (or the other dismissive reactions mentioned in the article) when SV culture is put under a critical microscope.
Re: A Backlash Builds Against Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley
#9I'd love it if someone with the skills could do a sentiment analysis of all the comments under SV sexism/sexual harassment articles posted to HN, and quantify the amount of denialism versus recognition there is, as well as graph whether there is at least a downward trend in denialism, whether the tipping point mentioned in the article is happening. On this topic I've been disappointed in HN more often than not. HN us…
Can't you just approximate the result by finding the most upvoted comments?
Re: A Backlash Builds Against Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley
#10The biggest issue here is not that Dave is a creep and that he has been let go. The biggest issue is that the leaders of this 500 Startups organization let this go on for years without taking action. Who are the people who let their organization's logo and name appear in this guy's slides together with the words "GET YOU LAID (=SEX)"? https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/dmc500hats/how-to-pitch-a-... It does not matter…
You assume a company should be all serious. There are way worse stuff in South Park, Monty Python or Naked Gun. The slide is just an attempt at being funny. It may not make you laught, you may find this humor borderline, you may want this should never happen in your company, but it's not shocking that they allowed this in there.
What are shocking are sexist actions. Any agressive/unfair action toward somebody actually, this is not a gender issue.
The dubious slide ?
Meh.