Harvard President says women “naturally” worse at math

Nice job, dickhead. Lawrence H. Summers, President of Harvard University, managed to piss a lot of people off at a Friday academic conference when he said that biological differences between men and women could be the reason that less women succeed in science and math careers–not discrimination.
Damn, do I feel bad for the ladies at Harvard right now!
Now I understand that addressing provocative theories is part of academia, but Summers’ comments were just a little too much for me. One of several explanations he put forward on the fewer number of women in math and science fields was that women don’t have the same “natural” or “innate” ability as men. Huh.
Women at the conference–which was about women and minorities in science and engineering–were less than pleased. Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at MIT, walked out on his talk, saying that if she hadn’t she “would’ve either blacked out or thrown up.”
And I have to say, I don’t buy Summers’ attempt to spin his comments as “hypotheses,” especially after learning that the number of tenured job offers made to Harvard women has dropped significantly since he took office. What a coincidence.