I understand where you're coming from, and that's fine. As for context, I disagree--I think this is a perfectly fine time for it--OP was saying, in effect, "Fo

I understand where you're coming from, and that's fine. As for context, I disagree--I think this is a perfectly fine time for it--OP was saying, in effect, "Folks, we're about to do Demo Day, don't be scumbags and/or harass our founders; there's a price to that." My comment was in response to a (completely valid and correct!) complaint about the tainting of business relationships for investing with romantic/sexual nonsense. I asked a question that several people interpreted as crass, which is unfortunate. I later refined and elaborated on the topic, showing it could be taken quite seriously and evaluated beyond just being thought of as some lowbrow joke. The troubling thing to me about this all is the out-of-hand rejection of the idea without further argument than "This idea makes us really uncomfortable, and we summarily refuse to evaluate it". It's a sign of intellectual laziness, of prejudice, and perhaps most unfortunately, mob mentality on a forum I generally respect. If we want to fix a lot of these issues we have as an industry, we can't shy away from ideas we find odious or comfortable: we must engage them on their own ground and show them to be folly. It's a pity that more people don't see that.