Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment

Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by angstrom on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:43PM (#14674551)

High functioning sociopaths. A person can be an asshole and not know it. A sociopath knows they're not acting within acceptable social norms and hides it. These investors are sociopaths. An asshole will make a comment and not deny it. A sociopath will try to twist it into a seemingly logical action ie "I was just trying to get rid of her because I didn't like her idea." By that logic who knows how many Jehovah's witnesses this person groped and/or fucked.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by andrepd on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:36PM (#14674788)

>High functioning sociopaths.

That's actually a medical/psychiatric diagnosis. I don't really think it applies here (or maybe it does, I don't know, I only know that you can't just throw that casually at run-of-the mill creeps).

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by naasking on Saturday July 01, 2017 @01:55AM (#14675616)

I believe OP was referring to the studied fact that leaders and business moguls tend to exhibit many more of the sociopathic check points than the ordinary person.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by angstrom on Saturday July 01, 2017 @09:54AM (#14677118)

Right, you might call these people manipulative, but on a level where they can camouflage their behavior.

Bill Cosby for instance could possibly be considered one. His also seems more methodical. What's worse: 60 possible rapes spanning decades or 60 possible rapes spanning a year?

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by TeMPOraL on Saturday July 01, 2017 @03:34AM (#14675905)

> By that logic who knows how many Jehovah's witnesses this person groped and/or fucked.

I'd love to know what you mean here, because I can't see how this follows anything.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by mirimir on Saturday July 01, 2017 @04:44AM (#14676108)

To get rid of them. Me, I start going on about the benefits of trepanning, and invite them out to the workshop ;)

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by TeMPOraL on Saturday July 01, 2017 @05:12AM (#14676203)

I see :).

Life pro tip: just say them in a calm, explicit and direct manner that you are not interested in receiving their visits and information from them. They respect that. They might show up after a year or so, just to check out if this is the same family living under the number.

They're pretty organised and respectful in what they do, so polite and direct works best.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by notyourday on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @02:04PM (#14704763)

I prefer to open a door in leather pants with no shirt and say "Ah yes, did you bring me the virgins?"

You have never seen slow walkers move that fast from the building.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by mirimir on Saturday July 01, 2017 @05:22AM (#14676224)

Seriously, yes. And indeed, I've sometimes enjoyed talking with them.

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