The Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs by Reid Hoffman
This is what I wrote earlier in reaction to this piece, then decided to not post for REASONS, but given how this is going, I am going to throw it out there now:<p><i>Oh, give me a break.<p>This piece posits that we need to punish male VCs who sexually harass female applicants.<p>First of all, this approach (of doing things like basically boycotting them) is so ridiculous and impractical that it amounts to saying &quot;I want you to think I am a highly ethical person, but I don&#x27;t actually want to do anything about the problem. I just want to say things that sound good so I will look good.&quot;<p>Second, it gives zero remedy to the women who were seeking funds from VCs.<p>A much, much better answer would be to find a solution that involves getting money into the hands of the female entrepreneurs who not only had to put up with this shit, but also (in most cases) did NOT get funding from these men who see them as nothing but sex objects.<p>Failing to find a means to get more funding into the hands of female entrepreneurs also de facto reinforces the current status quo. Advocating some kind of punishment for the men who assaulted them while doing nothing to remedy the material harm done to their career aspirations makes you part of the problem, not part of the solution.<p>I don&#x27;t really care if any men get hung high here. What I really care about is how in the hell do women get more opportunities? And everyone is so focused on being angry and outraged and also outraged at the presumed lack of outrage that no one can be bothered to do anything about this critical piece of the puzzle. Yet, it is the single most important thing here and it is the one thing I never see anyone talk about at all.<p>Why is no one starting a fund to get monies into the hands of female entrepreneurs in the face of this problem? I am not seeing that piece happen.<p>Am I wrong? If I am wrong, please link me to the fund that someone has started to get money into the hands of women in the face of this.</i>