> I don't believe every highly-esteemed man is asking undergrads out

Seriously?

Epstein was really well-esteemed.

Weinstein was very well-esteemed

Polansky was very well-esteemed

Ethan Zuckerman (MIT) was very well-esteemed

Stallman did nothing of the sort.

They are just legends built around a weird guy who comes out creepy when tries to be friendly.

And they started because he was not popular in college but usually right

People hate the outcasts that expose their faults in public

It ruins their projected image

It hurts their giant ego

BTW: I've been young and creepy sometimes to women, they've been creepy to me (one even stalked me and my girlfriend), most of the time we've been cool around each other.

"She said, he said" is a very bad way to evaluate a person in an objective way.

"They told me that one time" it's the beginning of everyone's life, when you are 66 and lived the life Stallman has lived, that one time, repeated over and over, becomes almost a truth.

It's like John Lennon saying "The best drummer in the world? Ringo is not even the best drummer in The Beatles"

Or Ozzy Osbourne eating bats

Or Van Halen's "no brown M&M's" rule