[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.