Way to miss the point. He abused his position by using it to try and coerce women into bed with him. Too cheap to spend his own money on hookers and crack like other Silly Valley burn-outs.
Also, what's with all you trolls saying he didn't commit a crime, as if somehow that makes this okay? None of them accused him of committing a crime. Though I'm pretty sure his daughters and wife may have some pretty strong opinions about him telling women he has an "open marriage."
Something doesn't have to be criminal to be offensive, incredibly stupid, and ill-advised.
3 comments, all critical of the women for complaining.
The first 2 comment I read were both from you, and both contained a fucking lie.
I don't post anonymously. I don't even hide behind a nym - my birth certificate says Barbara Jane Hudson. You can't say the same.
You fucking scumbag. Serious-fucking-ly. Someone is accused of a crime, and you come here and instead of trying to figure out what the truth is.... you start spreading lies about the person. Fuck off.
You fail reading comprehension. The women did NOT accuse him of a crime. You also might want to read the updated story.
You arent (sic) even close to a good person, and thats putting you in the best light I can. In actuality you are a very bad person, you are harmful to functional society. Fuck off.
The other volunteers at the food bank where I help out would probably strongly disagree with you. So would the 240 families that depended on our work last week. So would all the flood victims who've come in since the beginning of May (we had over 5,000 homes evacuated - many people lost everything). So would all the corporate and private donors who make it all possible.
Last week was the first time that I "slacked off" - took 3 days off in a row. One was for a doctor's appointment, one was for another visit to emergency (the 3rd this month) and one was because I needed the break. The week before it was 6 days - Sunday to Friday. Heavy labour, because those tons and tons of food don't just magically unload themselves, get sorted, shelved or boxed, or magically float into each family's weekly bin, or get loaded into cars and vans so that other volunteers can deliver them.
Earlier this month I sat in emergency for my birthday - shin splints (damage to the protective membrane of the bones in the lower legs). I had worked through the pain until Saturday. Back to emergency twice because some bug must have bitten me - there are two 5" swollen abscesses on my abdominal wall from the infection. Painful as all heck, and kind of gross when pus started leaking out, but I didn't stop working, because I saw first-hand the absolute need that's out there. I've talked to some of the victims. How can you not push yourself to your utmost after hearing how they've lost everything and are staying in temporary shelter. Or the ones who on top of that lost their jobs because their employer sustained heavy damage and may not be able to recover.
Or you could ask the guy who showed up looking for somewhere else to stay because the shelter wouldn't allow his pit bull in. He had the dog with him, and she's a real peach. I told him to crash in my spare bedroom until his place was safe to go back to. Him and his dog stayed 9 days (he says 10...)
There's probably over 1,000 people who would disagree with you. But enough about me. What have you done lately to justify your existence?
That's it? That's the very best you can do? At least back it up with some made-up facts... bible quotes... misquoted stats... you know, like all the other (almost exclusively male) transphobes do.
Must really piss you off that women accept me as one of their own. They would see your comments as symptomatic of the misogyny that pervades society... same as both this article and the comments slagging women for complaining. Well, at least you're somewhat on topic.
Citations needed, thanks. Especially about Trump being racist, I dare you to find it.
Ask the judges who have ruled that his ban on Muslims discriminated by race.. Ask the judge he accused of being biased because he was a Mexican. Ask the justice department, which twice took his company to court for racial discrimination - Trump countersued for slander, then entered into a consent not to do it again - and did it again.
here's a quote from the first hit from "donald trump racist"
In May, Trump implied that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a class action suit against the for-profit Trump University, could not fairly hear the case because of his Mexican heritage.
“He’s a Mexican,” Trump told CNN. “We’re building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings — rulings that people can’t even believe.”
Curiel, it should be noted, is an American citizen who was born in Indiana. As a prosecutor in the late 1990s, he went after Mexican drug cartels, making him a target for assassination by a Tijuana drug lord.
Even members of Trump’s own party slammed the racist remarks.
“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said, though he clarified that he still endorsed Trump
The comments against Curiel didn’t sit well with the American public either. According to a YouGov poll released in June, 51 percent of those surveyed agreed that Trump’s comments were not only wrong, but also racist. Fifty-seven percent of Americans said Trump was wrong to complain against the judge, while just 20 percent said he was right to do so.
Nobody has said he did anything criminal, so stop with the red herrings. What he did was highly inappropriate. The sort of stuff that gets people fired. The sort of stuff people get divorced over. You know, real world consequences.
A prominent venture capitalist admitted to sexually harassing women in the tech industry, saying he leveraged his “position of power in exchange for sexual gain” in the latest discrimination and misconduct scandal to rock Silicon Valley.
Justin Caldbeck announced on Friday that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, the firm he co-founded, following the claims of six women who accused the 40-year-old of making unwanted advances, often in the context of potential business deals.
The power dynamic that exists in venture capital is despicably unfair,” he said in his statement. “The gap of influence between male venture capitalists and female entrepreneurs is frightening and I hate that my behavior played a role in perpetrating a gender-hostile environment.”
So what is "position of power for sexual gain" again? And exactly what role did he play? Seek and ye shall find.
But after the story spread in Silicon Valley, Caldbeck reversed his position and issued a direct apology to the three women named in the article and “to the greater tech ecosystem, a community that I have utterly failed”.
He also said he was “deeply ashamed” of his lack of self-awareness and would seek professional counseling:
You don't seek professional help if you've done nothing wrong.
Also notice how different this is from his original blanket denial:
In the original piece, Caldbeck said:
“I strongly deny the Information’s attacks on my character. The fact is, I have always enjoyed respectful relationships with female founders, business partners, and investors.”
He denied it. Now he admits he needs to get help for it.
Even if I were to agree with everything you say, who are we to disagree with the 100s of millions who say you're wrong?
Mind you, I'll give you that there are plenty of folk who agree with you. Like ISIS. Putin. Various other dictators. Shouldn't that tell you something?
"Vandalism"? Says the guy who drools over pr0n featuring silicone breasts. Who thinks viagra is great when the body they were born with shrivels up and dies. Who has no problem with doctors working to fix his body, just not mine, even though it's a medical necessity that reduces the suicide rate drastically?
Like I said, it brings me no end of joy that the fact of my existence is sufficient to upset assholes like you. More so when the topic of discussion is sexual discrimination. How apropos:-)
Why does it upset you that someone can actually walk away from male privilege? Better yet, why does it piss you off that I have the courage to be me? And OMG I'm not even ashamed of it? That I like the fact that it's illegal to discriminate against me, or that I am a member of a protected class?
That I can use the women's washroom, and have been doing so for years, without ever encountering a single objection? I know how much that scares so many of you. Are you one of those? Have you thought it through - that it would mean trans men with beards pumped on testosterone would be sharing the women's washrooms with your wives and daughters?
Or is it that people like you are a small minority in the civilized world, regarded as backward, crude, unenlightened, ignorant, etc? That your attitude towards people like me is shared by ISIS? Shouldn't that raise at least a small alarm bell?
What you find as a "perfectly good body" I found as wrong. Why? Because I'm not you. It's my body, my choice. Get over it, and yourself.
My birth certificate says otherwise. The law says otherwise. But that my mere existence bugs the sh*t out of so many of you is a constant source of joy.
Smear campaign? How can it be a smear campaign when he's since copped to it all and apologized? The only people being smeared here are the women. Read the comments - it's amazing (but not surprising) how many comments are attacking the women for (1) complaining in the first place, (2) assuming that it's probably not true so there must be other motives, (3) blame the women for "misunderstanding", (4) "it's not complaint-worthy".
And yet you all claim there's no discrimination based on sex (or at least no "undeserved" discrimination, or no "serious enough" discrimination).
Here, let me put it in language you can understand. Lacking self-awareness you are. Into the mirror look you must. Regret this one day you will.
American culture? Like Donald Trumps "pussy grabbing"? Apparently lying, serial philandering, defrauding creditors, overt racism, and an addiction to Twitter are all acceptable to a large segment of the population. It might be American culture, but it's certainly not cultured.
I agree that "foreigners should stay on the other side of the wall" - for their own safety. Especially if they're dark-skinned. DWB no longer stands for Driving While Black, but Dying While Black.
First, it's been verified by the guy. He's admitted his guilt, apologized, and stepped down. No "probably" about it.
Second, this is a tech site, and we're talking about venture capital in the tech sector, so given all that, plus it undeniably being true, it's certainly an appropriate story for slashdot.
Third, if the story hadn't been publicized so much, he would have stuck with his original lies, while slandering the women by basically calling them liars.
If there's something to this, then they should report this to the cops instead of broadcasting massive smear campaigns. Oh right, filing false reports is illegal so they resort to this instead.
Feminists just don't want women to have to be held accountable for the truth. So much for equality.
He's since admitted to it, apologized, and stepped down. So it wasn't a smear campaign. Looks more like it's men who don't want women to hold them accountable.
If there's something to this, then they should report this to the cops instead of broadcasting massive smear campaigns.
Behavior can be very inappropriate without being illegal. Context matters. My wife has send me explicit text messages late at night. That doesn't mean it is appropriate for me to do the same to a female subordinate. In neither case is it illegal, nor should it be.
Actually, it is illegal to do so to a subordinate. It's called abusing a position of authority. Courts award money for that.
3 comments, all critical of the women for complaining. So you're all okay with sexual harassment and discrimination by sex when it happens to women. You guys are like a broken AI - predictable responses that could be churned out by a bot. Or just cut-n-paste whole threads from previous discussions, because it's always the same, whether it's about pay, sexual harassment, discrimination in its many forms - and then you wonder why your cubby-farm mates are almost all dudes.
The Russians who finance him / guarantee his loans through Deutsch Bank own the hotels. The usual lenders won't lend to him any more because they've been bitten too many times. And then there's this mess
The best way is to be the type of person the bedbugs won't bite in the first place. They'll completely avoid some type 1 diabetics for some reason. Same with lice. YMMV. Type 2 diabetes - sorry, you're a bug magnet.
As for the mushroom growing out of the guys' penis - it's magic. The problem will magically go away when his dick falls off tomorrow. Or earlier if he goes back for seconds.
There were pr0n movies doing this 25 years ago. Pr0n has consistently been the technology driver in visual media all the way back to the days of Adonis von Zschernitz.And is the reason we have broadband.
They had pr0n that had a half-decent plot 25 years ago? I thought the whole idea of crappy plots an cheesy music was so as not to distract from the onscreen action. At least, that's the only rationalization I can come up with as to why they'd make them pretty much plotless. So it wasn't intentional?
I just thought it was because I wasn't their target demographic, so why spend the money... learn something new every day.
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Way to miss the point. He abused his position by using it to try and coerce women into bed with him. Too cheap to spend his own money on hookers and crack like other Silly Valley burn-outs.
Also, what's with all you trolls saying he didn't commit a crime, as if somehow that makes this okay? None of them accused him of committing a crime. Though I'm pretty sure his daughters and wife may have some pretty strong opinions about him telling women he has an "open marriage."
Something doesn't have to be criminal to be offensive, incredibly stupid, and ill-advised.
3 comments, all critical of the women for complaining.
The first 2 comment I read were both from you, and both contained a fucking lie.
I don't post anonymously. I don't even hide behind a nym - my birth certificate says Barbara Jane Hudson. You can't say the same.
You fucking scumbag. Serious-fucking-ly. Someone is accused of a crime, and you come here and instead of trying to figure out what the truth is.... you start spreading lies about the person. Fuck off.
You fail reading comprehension. The women did NOT accuse him of a crime. You also might want to read the updated story.
You arent (sic) even close to a good person, and thats putting you in the best light I can. In actuality you are a very bad person, you are harmful to functional society. Fuck off.
The other volunteers at the food bank where I help out would probably strongly disagree with you. So would the 240 families that depended on our work last week. So would all the flood victims who've come in since the beginning of May (we had over 5,000 homes evacuated - many people lost everything). So would all the corporate and private donors who make it all possible.
Last week was the first time that I "slacked off" - took 3 days off in a row. One was for a doctor's appointment, one was for another visit to emergency (the 3rd this month) and one was because I needed the break. The week before it was 6 days - Sunday to Friday. Heavy labour, because those tons and tons of food don't just magically unload themselves, get sorted, shelved or boxed, or magically float into each family's weekly bin, or get loaded into cars and vans so that other volunteers can deliver them.
Earlier this month I sat in emergency for my birthday - shin splints (damage to the protective membrane of the bones in the lower legs). I had worked through the pain until Saturday. Back to emergency twice because some bug must have bitten me - there are two 5" swollen abscesses on my abdominal wall from the infection. Painful as all heck, and kind of gross when pus started leaking out, but I didn't stop working, because I saw first-hand the absolute need that's out there. I've talked to some of the victims. How can you not push yourself to your utmost after hearing how they've lost everything and are staying in temporary shelter. Or the ones who on top of that lost their jobs because their employer sustained heavy damage and may not be able to recover.
Or you could ask the guy who showed up looking for somewhere else to stay because the shelter wouldn't allow his pit bull in. He had the dog with him, and she's a real peach. I told him to crash in my spare bedroom until his place was safe to go back to. Him and his dog stayed 9 days (he says 10 ...)
There's probably over 1,000 people who would disagree with you. But enough about me. What have you done lately to justify your existence?
Women chose professions based on social status,
That isn't generally true of either sex, but thanks for the generalization.
English, motherfucker. Do you speak it?
That's it? That's the very best you can do? At least back it up with some made-up facts ... bible quotes ... misquoted stats ... you know, like all the other (almost exclusively male) transphobes do.
Must really piss you off that women accept me as one of their own. They would see your comments as symptomatic of the misogyny that pervades society ... same as both this article and the comments slagging women for complaining. Well, at least you're somewhat on topic.
Citations needed, thanks. Especially about Trump being racist, I dare you to find it.
Ask the judges who have ruled that his ban on Muslims discriminated by race.. Ask the judge he accused of being biased because he was a Mexican. Ask the justice department, which twice took his company to court for racial discrimination - Trump countersued for slander, then entered into a consent not to do it again - and did it again. here's a quote from the first hit from "donald trump racist"
In May, Trump implied that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a class action suit against the for-profit Trump University, could not fairly hear the case because of his Mexican heritage.
“He’s a Mexican,” Trump told CNN. “We’re building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings — rulings that people can’t even believe.”
Curiel, it should be noted, is an American citizen who was born in Indiana. As a prosecutor in the late 1990s, he went after Mexican drug cartels, making him a target for assassination by a Tijuana drug lord.
Even members of Trump’s own party slammed the racist remarks.
“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said, though he clarified that he still endorsed Trump
The comments against Curiel didn’t sit well with the American public either. According to a YouGov poll released in June, 51 percent of those surveyed agreed that Trump’s comments were not only wrong, but also racist. Fifty-seven percent of Americans said Trump was wrong to complain against the judge, while just 20 percent said he was right to do so.
Racist, sexist bigot. That's Donald Trump.
Nobody has said he did anything criminal, so stop with the red herrings. What he did was highly inappropriate. The sort of stuff that gets people fired. The sort of stuff people get divorced over. You know, real world consequences.
You need to get out more. He most certainly admitted it:
A prominent venture capitalist admitted to sexually harassing women in the tech industry, saying he leveraged his “position of power in exchange for sexual gain” in the latest discrimination and misconduct scandal to rock Silicon Valley.
Justin Caldbeck announced on Friday that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, the firm he co-founded, following the claims of six women who accused the 40-year-old of making unwanted advances, often in the context of potential business deals.
The power dynamic that exists in venture capital is despicably unfair,” he said in his statement. “The gap of influence between male venture capitalists and female entrepreneurs is frightening and I hate that my behavior played a role in perpetrating a gender-hostile environment.”
So what is "position of power for sexual gain" again? And exactly what role did he play? Seek and ye shall find.
But after the story spread in Silicon Valley, Caldbeck reversed his position and issued a direct apology to the three women named in the article and “to the greater tech ecosystem, a community that I have utterly failed”.
He also said he was “deeply ashamed” of his lack of self-awareness and would seek professional counseling:
You don't seek professional help if you've done nothing wrong.
Also notice how different this is from his original blanket denial: In the original piece, Caldbeck said:
“I strongly deny the Information’s attacks on my character. The fact is, I have always enjoyed respectful relationships with female founders, business partners, and investors.”
He denied it. Now he admits he needs to get help for it.
Why do YOU think?
Even if I were to agree with everything you say, who are we to disagree with the 100s of millions who say you're wrong?
Mind you, I'll give you that there are plenty of folk who agree with you. Like ISIS. Putin. Various other dictators. Shouldn't that tell you something?
"Vandalism"? Says the guy who drools over pr0n featuring silicone breasts. Who thinks viagra is great when the body they were born with shrivels up and dies. Who has no problem with doctors working to fix his body, just not mine, even though it's a medical necessity that reduces the suicide rate drastically?
Like I said, it brings me no end of joy that the fact of my existence is sufficient to upset assholes like you. More so when the topic of discussion is sexual discrimination. How apropos :-)
Why does it upset you that someone can actually walk away from male privilege? Better yet, why does it piss you off that I have the courage to be me? And OMG I'm not even ashamed of it? That I like the fact that it's illegal to discriminate against me, or that I am a member of a protected class?
That I can use the women's washroom, and have been doing so for years, without ever encountering a single objection? I know how much that scares so many of you. Are you one of those? Have you thought it through - that it would mean trans men with beards pumped on testosterone would be sharing the women's washrooms with your wives and daughters?
Or is it that people like you are a small minority in the civilized world, regarded as backward, crude, unenlightened, ignorant, etc? That your attitude towards people like me is shared by ISIS? Shouldn't that raise at least a small alarm bell?
What you find as a "perfectly good body" I found as wrong. Why? Because I'm not you. It's my body, my choice. Get over it, and yourself.
Actually, it is criminal if they felt that they had no option but to submit.
My birth certificate says otherwise. The law says otherwise. But that my mere existence bugs the sh*t out of so many of you is a constant source of joy.
Smear campaign? How can it be a smear campaign when he's since copped to it all and apologized? The only people being smeared here are the women. Read the comments - it's amazing (but not surprising) how many comments are attacking the women for (1) complaining in the first place, (2) assuming that it's probably not true so there must be other motives, (3) blame the women for "misunderstanding", (4) "it's not complaint-worthy".
And yet you all claim there's no discrimination based on sex (or at least no "undeserved" discrimination, or no "serious enough" discrimination).
Here, let me put it in language you can understand. Lacking self-awareness you are. Into the mirror look you must. Regret this one day you will.
American culture? Like Donald Trumps "pussy grabbing"? Apparently lying, serial philandering, defrauding creditors, overt racism, and an addiction to Twitter are all acceptable to a large segment of the population. It might be American culture, but it's certainly not cultured.
I agree that "foreigners should stay on the other side of the wall" - for their own safety. Especially if they're dark-skinned. DWB no longer stands for Driving While Black, but Dying While Black.
There's no need for proof. He has admitted it. Read the story again - it's been updated. So much for your racist powers of deduction.
First, it's been verified by the guy. He's admitted his guilt, apologized, and stepped down. No "probably" about it.
Second, this is a tech site, and we're talking about venture capital in the tech sector, so given all that, plus it undeniably being true, it's certainly an appropriate story for slashdot.
Third, if the story hadn't been publicized so much, he would have stuck with his original lies, while slandering the women by basically calling them liars.
If there's something to this, then they should report this to the cops instead of broadcasting massive smear campaigns. Oh right, filing false reports is illegal so they resort to this instead.
Feminists just don't want women to have to be held accountable for the truth. So much for equality.
He's since admitted to it, apologized, and stepped down. So it wasn't a smear campaign. Looks more like it's men who don't want women to hold them accountable.
If there's something to this, then they should report this to the cops instead of broadcasting massive smear campaigns.
Behavior can be very inappropriate without being illegal. Context matters. My wife has send me explicit text messages late at night. That doesn't mean it is appropriate for me to do the same to a female subordinate. In neither case is it illegal, nor should it be.
Actually, it is illegal to do so to a subordinate. It's called abusing a position of authority. Courts award money for that.
3 comments, all critical of the women for complaining. So you're all okay with sexual harassment and discrimination by sex when it happens to women. You guys are like a broken AI - predictable responses that could be churned out by a bot. Or just cut-n-paste whole threads from previous discussions, because it's always the same, whether it's about pay, sexual harassment, discrimination in its many forms - and then you wonder why your cubby-farm mates are almost all dudes.
The Russians who finance him / guarantee his loans through Deutsch Bank own the hotels. The usual lenders won't lend to him any more because they've been bitten too many times. And then there's this mess
The best way is to be the type of person the bedbugs won't bite in the first place. They'll completely avoid some type 1 diabetics for some reason. Same with lice. YMMV. Type 2 diabetes - sorry, you're a bug magnet.
You spelled "sister" wrong.
As for the mushroom growing out of the guys' penis - it's magic. The problem will magically go away when his dick falls off tomorrow. Or earlier if he goes back for seconds.
There were pr0n movies doing this 25 years ago. Pr0n has consistently been the technology driver in visual media all the way back to the days of Adonis von Zschernitz.And is the reason we have broadband.
They had pr0n that had a half-decent plot 25 years ago? I thought the whole idea of crappy plots an cheesy music was so as not to distract from the onscreen action. At least, that's the only rationalization I can come up with as to why they'd make them pretty much plotless. So it wasn't intentional?
I just thought it was because I wasn't their target demographic, so why spend the money ... learn something new every day.
They won't kill the bedbugs out of professional courtesy.