Years ago I wrote about the bear and the man, sans the bear. (But there was a dog.) I thought it might be a good time to reprise.<\/p>\n
Bold Assertions<\/strong><\/p>\n Do you know me? Yes? How well and for how long, and how good is your memory? If you\u2019ve known me for a while you might remember that in 2009, as chief proprietor of a widely read science blog, I shocked many people in the skeptics\/science world (aka Friends of Big Bang) by coming out firmly against rape. Within a year or so I came out with another shocker: I suggested that under certain circumstances men out alone at night, when encountering a women also out alone at night, might give her a wide berth in order to not engender fear. Cross the street instead of bearing down (as it were) on the person you don\u2019t even know.<\/p>\n These bold assertions overlapped in time with Elevatorgate. Remember that? My position \u2014 no on rape, and also no on being a dick \u2014 were sufficiently shocking in the world of self styled intellectuals (and actual intellectuals such as Richard Dawkins himself) that I and all the others who were saying similar things at the time were attacked relentlessly by a then growing MRA movement (Men\u2019s Rights Activism). In fact, I\u2019m pretty sure that Rebecca Watson and the women of Skepchick, PZ Myers, Myself, and a couple of others fueled the growth of that movement without intending to do so. As recently as several months ago, one of the MRAs threatened to harass one of my family members \u201cuntil the day he dies\u201d out of spite.<\/p>\n Read the rest on my substack!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Years ago I wrote about the bear and the man, sans the bear. (But there was a dog.) I thought it might be a good time to reprise. Bold Assertions Do you know me? Yes? How well and for how long, and how good is your memory? If you\u2019ve known me for a while you … Continue reading My Bear And Man Thing<\/span>