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Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud by NovemberWhiskey on Sunday May 30, 2021 @09:52AM (#27333242)
I don't know any of the context here, but it seems to me that what the quote actually says is that the author admits that he is unable to function effectively with female colleagues, that there are other men like him, and that it's a problem that mustn't be allowed to hold women back from doing science.
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Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud by NovemberWhiskey on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:26AM (#27333903)
Please give some credit to other posters.

The way I read this; when he says "you", it's the generic you: he's talking about the "chauvinist monsters" like himself, and it's in the context of three particular ways in which his own failings prevent him working with women.

He forms and encourages inappropriate emotional relationships with his female colleagues and it affects his ability to give criticism of their work effectively.

Now you have the right to read that a different way; but please respect that others are not just "memory-holing" misogynistic comments for some reason or another.

I'm not defending him: he definitely has a problem with his attitude to women, it sounds like it might absolutely create a hostile workplace, and it's almost certainly inappropriate to be talking about the subject in such a light-hearted manner - but this is fundamentally a mea culpa rather than a criticism of women in science.

Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud by unishark on Sunday May 30, 2021 @12:18PM (#27334286)
Yes I imagined his idea of "criticizing" amounted to abusively yelling at people. From what I've seen, the way people win Nobel prizes is by working their lab 24/7 like a slavedriver. I actually have seen psychopathic professors yell at female lab members until they cry. I knew one guy who complained about it. He apparently got much more productivity out of yelling at the guys. Pretty dark humor if it's a joke.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud by skystarman on Sunday May 30, 2021 @02:25PM (#27335297)
"Now you have the right to read that a different way; but please respect that others are not just "memory-holing" misogynistic comments for some reason or another."

Almost every single one of the posters defending this misogynistic behavior are just deliberately leaving out his most incendiary and misogynistic remark and instead focusing on comments he made that are less objectionable.

Why do these people deserve "credit"? Am I suppose to believe only focusing on the least objectionable comments to paint him as some unfairly maligned martyr is just an accident?

Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud by zozbot234 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:07PM (#27334677)
I mean, who could prove him wrong? Maybe his idea of "criticizing" his fellow professionals involves a lot of yelling and throwing chairs around. There's certainly some people like that in the workplace.