82: Scott Alexander & Slate Star Codex, with David Gerard and Elizabeth Sandifer
I Don't Speak German
The Unreasonableness of a Feminist Blogger
Aaron Tim: Scott Aronson, a brilliant computer scientist who was confronted by a young woman in one of his classes who talked about her sexual assault. And he wrote this post and a couple feminist bloggers, most notably Amanda Marcott and Lori Penny took them to task for it with varying degrees of severity. Siskin writes this furious post about how utterly unreasonable it is that anyone would come at Scott Aronson this way. But anyway, I should note, by the way, Scott Aronson is married with kids, you know, he met a woman who presumably actually likes him. He's still talking like a dangerous man.
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