“Owen expressed sexual and / or romantic interest in women who were younger and less influential than he was.”
That seems like it’s missing important components? Going back to where this originally became public in the Time Magazine article:
A third described an unsettling experience with an influential figure [1] in EA whose role included picking out promising students and funneling them towards highly coveted jobs. After that leader arranged for her to be flown to the U.K. for a job interview, she recalls being surprised to discover that she was expected to stay in his home, not a hotel. When she arrived, she says, “he told me he needed to masturbate before seeing me.”
In this case, going just on the claim in the article, it’s not just that the woman was younger and less influential, but also that the job she was interviewing for put her up at Owen’s house.
I agree that this is part of what was problematic.
[Edited to remove an attempt to give a little further context on the error … I’m torn between a desire to provide transparency, and a desire not to repeat the original errors of oversharing, and on reflection I think this was veering a bit too much to the latter compared to the amount of value it was providing on the former.]
That seems like it’s missing important components? Going back to where this originally became public in the Time Magazine article:
In this case, going just on the claim in the article, it’s not just that the woman was younger and less influential, but also that the job she was interviewing for put her up at Owen’s house.
[1] Confirmed in the EV UK board statement on Owen’s resignation to be referring to Owen.
(Disclosure: married to Julia Wise.)
I agree that this is part of what was problematic.
[Edited to remove an attempt to give a little further context on the error … I’m torn between a desire to provide transparency, and a desire not to repeat the original errors of oversharing, and on reflection I think this was veering a bit too much to the latter compared to the amount of value it was providing on the former.]