Outspoken hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson usually sticks to the stock markets — not sex tips.
Prompted by a recent New York Times story about the campus “hookup” culture at the University of Pennsylvania, the founder of Kase Capital caused a stir yesterday with a widely circulated e-mail and blog posting offering some advice to his three daughters should a guy ever tell them to “get down on your knees.”
While Tilson’s suggestions for escaping the situation started out tame (“Walk away”) it quickly escalated with his fifth and final item: “Bite it!”
In all cases, Tilson — who is active in education-reform circles — said he would ask that his girls “come home and tell me his name so I can buy my first gun and … well, you get the idea!”
The tongue-in-cheek advice, which Tilson sent to his education reform listserv and posted on his blog, edreform.blogspot.com, sparked a loud round of mostly applause on Twitter.
“Amen!” tweeted CNBC anchor Melissa Lee.
“As the father of twin girls, couldn’t agree with Whitney Tilson more, especially the gun part,” tweeted reader Allen Wastler to financial blog Business Insider, which first reported the Tilson e-mail.
The hedge-fund manager told The Post that the bulk of responses were from “parents agreeing with my reaction” to one anecdote in the Times story about a college woman who felt sexually coerced.
“A handful of people asked to be removed from my [list],” Tilson said, adding that his wife spoke to their 17-year-old about the Times story.
His hedge fund, Kase — named after his wife and three daughters — is up roughly 9 percent through June, according to his latest investor letter.