Do atheists have a sexual harassment problem?

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7. I followed this.

IMHO, DJ Grothe handled this very badly. If he had paid attention to previous rumblings in the skeptical blogosphere, he should have realized that this could be important.

Instead, he went into denial, and equivocation. If woman attendance at TAM this year is markedly down this year I put the responsibility on DJ, whose callous disregard had to be the most insulting and misogynistic attitude.

Grothe has always been a controversial figure in our movement. I like him but have a real problem with his naive and overt libertarianism. Not to raise politics into this... But I am going to nevertheless do that very thing.

Grothe failed here, big time. He should resign as JREF president if he is unable to address a problem which could be very easily resolved.

There are many of us in the skeptic community who are disgusted of the way this was mishandled.

I think Grothe put his politics ahead of the issue. I have lost all respect for him.