&gt; It would follow that if you are going to respect Jessica&#x27;s choice to not talk about gender discrimination in her talk, you would have to also respect the choice of PG [...]<p>Not really. Women may avoid talking about this stuff because it makes them targets, and they may not need more trouble. Guys can and should talk about this; it&#x27;s our chance to use our gender privilege to reduce the problem.<p>My experience is that for any given feminist statement I get 90-100% less crap than women do. I hear some squeaks from the antifeminists, but very little from the active misogynists and other abusive shitheels. If you&#x27;re right and PG is unwilling to take even mild heat when he could easily do so, I don&#x27;t feel obliged to respect that. Especially after his big talk about him getting all the credit because he&#x27;s more comfortable in the spotlight.<p>If PG really didn&#x27;t want to talk about gender discrimination because Jessica, he could have just said so. Or he could have not mentioned her feelings at all and said, &quot;gender discrimination could be a factor but I want to focus on X for now.&quot; Refusing to acknowledge it at all weakens the piece. And expecting people to pick up subtle radiations from obscure YouTube talks also doesn&#x27;t strike me as a very good essay-writing strategy.