<story><title>Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>&amp;gt; I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly.&lt;p&gt;Why? There&amp;#x27;s a really simple procedure that can solve these problems:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t hit on, feel-up, or try to have sex with people you&amp;#x27;re in a professional business relationship with&lt;/i&gt;. That goes double for people you hold power over (managers to employees, VCs to Founders, etc).&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re really truly worried about false accusations then here&amp;#x27;s another fix you can have for free: &lt;i&gt;record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders&lt;/i&gt; and&amp;#x2F;or don&amp;#x27;t meet alone.&lt;p&gt;I expect smart VCs that are interested in making money (as opposed to lording it over others or using their position to get sex) will continue to take lots of meetings with women.</text></item><item><author>5thaccount</author><text>I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly. Not because they are likely to be problems, quite the opposite I&amp;#x27;d wager.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s going to be the rather depressing and sad reality of the shakeout of this.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>This is a watershed moment in the VC industry.  The dam has finally burst, and we&amp;#x27;re now seeing the establishment of a new norm in which women who are being harassed go public rather than feeling compelled to hide it.  Expect to see many men who were operating under the old norms getting ousted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re really truly worried about false accusations then here&amp;#x27;s another fix you can have for free: record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders and&amp;#x2F;or don&amp;#x27;t meet alone.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not so easy. Bullshit accusations leaking on Twitter will be halfway to destroying your career before you even dig up the original recordings, and I doubt anyone will want to listen to your case anyway (if anything, they&amp;#x27;ll comb over your recordings with a tootbrush to prove you were guilty of this, and a bunch of other things). I too expect VCs to be less willing to expose themselves to such danger.</text></comment>
<story><title>Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>&amp;gt; I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly.&lt;p&gt;Why? There&amp;#x27;s a really simple procedure that can solve these problems:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t hit on, feel-up, or try to have sex with people you&amp;#x27;re in a professional business relationship with&lt;/i&gt;. That goes double for people you hold power over (managers to employees, VCs to Founders, etc).&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re really truly worried about false accusations then here&amp;#x27;s another fix you can have for free: &lt;i&gt;record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders&lt;/i&gt; and&amp;#x2F;or don&amp;#x27;t meet alone.&lt;p&gt;I expect smart VCs that are interested in making money (as opposed to lording it over others or using their position to get sex) will continue to take lots of meetings with women.</text></item><item><author>5thaccount</author><text>I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly. Not because they are likely to be problems, quite the opposite I&amp;#x27;d wager.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s going to be the rather depressing and sad reality of the shakeout of this.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>This is a watershed moment in the VC industry.  The dam has finally burst, and we&amp;#x27;re now seeing the establishment of a new norm in which women who are being harassed go public rather than feeling compelled to hide it.  Expect to see many men who were operating under the old norms getting ousted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>5thaccount</author><text>Do you know what amazes me about comments like yours? You don&amp;#x27;t have to agree with a course of action to accept the reality that certain things will happen.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I expect smart VCs that are interested in making money ... will continue to take lots of meetings with women.&lt;p&gt;OK, so ON NET what do you expect to happen? Lets say I agree and the smart ones take the meetings, what about the dumb ones? Or the average ones? What is the net result of all those different levels of VCs? Less or more meetings for women?&lt;p&gt;Again, &amp;quot;You don&amp;#x27;t have to agree with a course of action to accept the reality that certain things will happen&amp;quot;.</text></comment>