Men Demand I Agree With Them

There are men who don't (only) mansplain; rather, or in addition to this, they demand you echo and repeat their ideas, however obvious your disagreement.

I recently had the opportunity to travel to a lovely city, give a talk on a topic dear to my heart, meet many charming people, and catch up with an old friend who I hadn’t seen in a long time. As I told him, he is one of several people who did me the great service of taking me seriously as a budding logician way back when I was an undergraduate—and thus…