[SquishyPanda23]

People are entitled to like sex and to approach people for relationships that may become sexual.

If female grad students were inviting him over for booty calls I think the tone of the conversation would be much different.

But the claim is that he was making advances on people who didn't welcome them. This is especially a problem since he was an influential professor with power over their careers.

Even for professors, where the natural state for many is social awkwardness, you have some obligation to read the signs of when your behavior is unwanted.

[coldtea]

>But the claim is that he was making advances on people who didn't welcome them.

That was part of my point. One can be crash or sexist like that and still a great writer/thinker/etc.

The other ("If female grad students were inviting him over for booty calls I think the tone of the conversation would be much different") of course goes without saying!

[SquishyPanda23]

Sure I don't disagree that people with significant failings can do good creative work. My go-to example is always Teichmuller, who produced beautiful mathematics and was a literal Nazi.