[hyperliner]

The biggest issue here is not that Dave is a creep and that he has been let go.

The biggest issue is that the leaders of this 500 Startups organization let this go on for years without taking action.

Who are the people who let their organization's logo and name appear in this guy's slides together with the words "GET YOU LAID (=SEX)"?

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/dmc500hats/how-to-pitch-a-...

It does not matter if they are men or women. THEY ARE COMPLICIT in this mess.

[clarkevans]

Slide 12 is creepy enough; 14 is over the top; 16 is perverted.

[synaesthesisx]

Is this real? This seems like some sort of poor excuse for a joke.

[FLUX-YOU]

Even removing the context of his resignation, his slides are a poor attempt to be funny and shocking and memorable. I'm pretty sure he was not a comedian.

Things get weird when money is involved. It was probably tolerated in 2010 because of that. 2017 was the breaking point (Why it took 7 years to reach a breaking point is a dark mark for Silicon Valley)

[sametmax]

You assume a company should be all serious. There are way worse stuff in South Park, Monty Python or Naked Gun. The slide is just an attempt at being funny. It may not make you laught, you may find this humor borderline, you may want this should never happen in your company, but it's not shocking that they allowed this in there.

What are shocking are sexist actions. Any agressive/unfair action toward somebody actually, this is not a gender issue.

The dubious slide ?

Meh.

[Insanity]

But those movies are clearly meant as comedy and everyone watching it knows that.

Some comedians say things that are accepted because they are comedians and anyone repeating their jokes in public in a setting where it might be taken quite differently than as a joke might get into some trouble for doing so.

I really do not see how the two compare..

[sametmax]

If I watch this slide, I'm not going to take it to the letter. Only an idiot would. "bigger is better" ? You take that phrase seriously in a corporate slide ? It's clearly an attempt to humor. I get you don't find that funny. I just don't get how shocked everyone is.

The US elected a president that "grab them by the pussy". You have real problems. Those slides are not.

[rf15]

> You assume a company should be all serious.

Except nothing about this is funny, and if you think it is, it only shows how detached you are from reality and humanity. It's like casual racism.

[sametmax]

You could say that for most TV, cinema and youtube. We don't all agree on what's funny and what's offensive.

[tnzn]

Usually you should let those being offended decide wether or not it's offensive by definition though.

[sametmax]

It's always offensive to someone. Something is not offensive in absolute. It's offensive to x in context y and it matters to z because of w.

[macspoofing]

The slide-deck is from 2010. This was around the time when overtly sexual tones in conference talks started to become unacceptable. Attitudes change.

[te_chris]

Don't forget this clusterfuck from Mr. McClure http://gawker.com/5985094/tech-bros-google-sponsored-trip-to...

[westoncb]

Wait, what? This is an article about some people who were planning on attending a trip organized by McClure, who showed up early, got drunk and naked, and then one guy (Jesse Thomas) took pics/videos of the other (Matt Monahan) and posted it online.

How is that a clusterfuck 'from Mr. McClure'?