>If I think my neighbor's a dick, I don't need to hold a trial by jury to decide if I'm allowed to disinvite him from my BBQ. A moral defense of social practic

>If I think my neighbor's a dick, I don't need to hold a trial by jury to decide if I'm allowed to disinvite him from my BBQ. A moral defense of social practices shouldn't rely on a dubious analogy between a major scientific conference and someone's backyard soirée. Human affairs do not separate cleanly into "governance" and "private". >there's some other bad stuff mentioned, like harassment of the author and some shitty assumptions that her own work was secretly Geoffs, and that's to be condemned, but that's separate from the main thrust of this post. I don't think it's at all fair to the author to reduce harassment directed at her to a parenthetical in a post discussing her experience in research. It is very important and speaks to the prevailing cultural norms.