Interesting article on National Geographic, about a Scientific American blogger having recently taken leave after accusations of sexual harassment.
The situation seems to have begun when another Scientific American blogger, the "Urban Scientist", wrote a post about an incident in which the editor of another somewhat noted science blogging site asked her to blog for them. She declined after asking about compensation and learning that particular blog didn't offer it, at which point in response the editor called her a "whore". Scientific American took the blog post down within minutes, causing a row, but has since restored it.
In the midst of the row, however, independent blogger Monica Byrne updated a much earlier blog post of hers about an incident of rather shameless boundary ignorance during an interview with an unnamed person, to name the individual as a SciAm blogger of note. Since then another person has disclosed that she'd also been made to feel uncomfortable by this person's lack of boundaries. She also briefly describes seeing the social media response to Byrne's disclosure, which predictably included cries of "witch hunting".
I'm curious about whether this will stop here, or whether other, similar disclosures will come about. When it comes to atheist/skepticism bloggers, usually females who make claims about harassment or other inappropriate sexual behavior are dismissed as being part of some far-reaching female-atheist/skepticism-blogger-conspiracy to hate all men. However, the women involved with this SciAm business aren't atheist/skepticism bloggers, have nothing to do with that "circle", thus obviously aren't part of any such conspiracy. Perhaps the problem really does exist after all; and the conversation should be shifted out of "sexual harassment in the skeptical/atheist community" to "sexual harassment in the science community" in general.
The situation seems to have begun when another Scientific American blogger, the "Urban Scientist", wrote a post about an incident in which the editor of another somewhat noted science blogging site asked her to blog for them. She declined after asking about compensation and learning that particular blog didn't offer it, at which point in response the editor called her a "whore". Scientific American took the blog post down within minutes, causing a row, but has since restored it.
In the midst of the row, however, independent blogger Monica Byrne updated a much earlier blog post of hers about an incident of rather shameless boundary ignorance during an interview with an unnamed person, to name the individual as a SciAm blogger of note. Since then another person has disclosed that she'd also been made to feel uncomfortable by this person's lack of boundaries. She also briefly describes seeing the social media response to Byrne's disclosure, which predictably included cries of "witch hunting".
I'm curious about whether this will stop here, or whether other, similar disclosures will come about. When it comes to atheist/skepticism bloggers, usually females who make claims about harassment or other inappropriate sexual behavior are dismissed as being part of some far-reaching female-atheist/skepticism-blogger-conspiracy to hate all men. However, the women involved with this SciAm business aren't atheist/skepticism bloggers, have nothing to do with that "circle", thus obviously aren't part of any such conspiracy. Perhaps the problem really does exist after all; and the conversation should be shifted out of "sexual harassment in the skeptical/atheist community" to "sexual harassment in the science community" in general.
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