Here’s where I may lose some of you. Up to now, I’ve kept to myself those thoughts on gender topics that I know are not going to be popular. As such, some of you (such as the person with whom I had lunch yesterday who said we needed to stop discussing this subject) may want [...]
Oh man there’s so much fodder out there from which I could craft this post. Too much in fact.
So. The recent remarks by the president of Harvard created a brief flurry of press nationwide (and it may still be swirling up there in Boston). His actual remarks aren’t available as the conference where he was speaking “was designed to be off-the-record so that participants could speak candidly without fear of public misunderstanding or disclosure later” (quoted from this New York Times article). I guess that was only the case if you didn’t say anything too controversial.From the reports I’ve read, he was asked to make a provocative speech to a lunchgroup.