The co-founder of a company uses his own company's service to display his misogyny and mock a recent tragedy. He should be lucky the let him 'resign' and didn't very publicly fire him.

I assume this is cofounder privilege. If one of my employees got my business this kind of bad press, I'd lead him/her out by the ear immediately.

This was just the latest of many incidents involving Mahbod. Google his name and you will see why he was fired/resigned.

A highly visible man in tech praised the writings of a mass murderer. The writings in question encouraged and led to violence against women through the viewpoint that women should pay attention to men and given men what they want all the time, along with a barrage of woman hating comments. This problem of entitlement and misogyny from societal influences is also well known, and is pervasive, in tech. Mahbod praised the writings of someone who represents problems in society that lead to violence against women. He threw in his own misogynistic comments for good measure. He's not only encouraging dangerous behavior, but adding to it. Women, both in technology and outside of it, feel a real danger because of comments like these. No amount of apologizing would have sufficed here to keep his job.

I was personally disappointed that he was allowed to resign, as that's not sending the right message, which would be "this is a real problem, we acknowledge it, and we won't tolerate behavior leading to violence of women." The firing is more appropriate. However, when you have someone like that leading a company, chances are it's already worked its way into the culture. I never had a reason to use this service before, but now I have a reason to actively avoid it.

> A highly visible man in tech praised the writings of a mass murderer.

Really? The snippet they showed looked like he was mocking the mass murderer. Is there a link to a copy of what was written?

> This problem of entitlement and misogyny from societal influences is also well known, and is pervasive, in tech.

I think that's a pretty bold statement. Eliot Rodger had much more going on than simple misogyny, his writing depict an insane amount of narcissism. It seems like you're trying to equate his attitude with whatever problems the tech industry/culture has, but come on, the problems of the industry are clearly different than this guy's severe mental issues...

You should look at the rest of his annotations which Gawker[1] has.

[1] http://gawker.com/rap-genius-co-founders-creepy-comments-on-...