I am conflicted. I generally despise SJWs and identity politics, but this couldn't have happened to a nicer person. Data point. Read http://www.catb.org/esr/

I am conflicted. I generally despise SJWs and identity politics, but this couldn't have happened to a nicer person. Data point. Read http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/sextips/ http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/sextips/. Data point. It took ESR less than 15 minutes from meeting my ex in late 1999 to make an undesired pass at her. (He knew she was married to me, and was turned down.) Data point. I was at a PerlMongers meeting in 2003. And happened to remark that, "Someone needs to tell ESR that he's not God's gift to women." After the laughter died down, a woman at the table gave an account of his making an unwanted pass at her. This opened a floodgate as every woman at the table had her own similar story in turn. There are many more such data points. But clearly ESR's behavior has been a problem for a long time. However I am still deeply concerned that he establishes a convenient precedent that will be applied to other, much less problematic, people.