My impression is that a lot of people who had nothing to do with this conference decided, on both sides, to make this An Issue without caring about the facts on

My impression is that a lot of people who had nothing to do with this conference decided, on both sides, to make this An Issue without caring about the facts on the ground. I saw the MRAs-vs-feminists going at it in at least two places on the Internet, one of them being HN. This issue was a microcosm of all their old fights and they were going to take us down with them.