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> and leaves the burden on the victims rather than the perpetrators How do you think an (alleged) perpetrator is supposed to prove that something did not happe

by gist 8y ago

> and leaves the burden on the victims rather than the perpetrators How do you think an (alleged) perpetrator is supposed to prove that something did not happen prior to even having details on what has happened? Also in the case of a 'he said/she said' what do you think should happen? Accusations are easy to make. Also noting that behavior is not static. What one person interprets as 'harassment' is not the same as someone else. Also there is harassment of a non sexual nature within the sexes. Is that not important? Or only if it's 'sexual' in some way of coercion does it matter?

danso 8y ago
> Accusations are easy to make. You're saying this despite the article talking about a survey in which only 19 of 384 female YC founders said they "experienced one or more inappropriate incidents by angels or VCs". And only a subset of those actually reported those incidents. The data does not seem to support the assertion that "accusations are easy to make". And there's plenty of known history that contradicts it as well, e.g. Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick, the U.S. womens gymnastics team, etc.