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This post is pure victim blaming that adds nothing of substance to the conversation ("The Times describes some founders who put up with unwanted sexual advances
by GuiA 9y ago
This post is pure victim blaming that adds nothing of substance to the conversation ("The Times describes some founders who put up with unwanted sexual advances"... clearly the people who have come forward precisely DO NOT put up with the unwanted sexual advances?!?!?!?!). The author should perhaps realize that they are privileged to have never experienced the distresses many have reported, instead of smugly dismissing it with an argument that amounts to "well I'm old and I see no problems here" (EDIT: never mind, turns out the author was born in 1982, not worked in the valley since 1982, which makes her argument just "I'm a random person and I see no problems here", even less forgivable).
I have a very hard time understanding what kind of mind, when given the choice to support rich powerful people who abuse their power or women who just would like to get their work done and build a career in a professional environment, chooses to believe and stick by the former.
Given that this is on the front page already I expect my post to be heavily disagreed with, but at least people who have experienced discrimination/harassment can see that not all of the HN users think it's their fault.