It's reality, and as much about mannerism as looks. OP wasn't attacking chomsky on a personal level, just pointing out how he's often perceived. It's sort of u

It's reality, and as much about mannerism as looks. OP wasn't attacking chomsky on a personal level, just pointing out how he's often perceived. It's sort of unfixable because the taste-makers at NYT and WaPo sorted themselves into the conformist camp so early in their lives that anyone outside that camp is trivially portrayable as "weird" to them.