<p>"I'm sorry for him, and I'm sorry for Harvard."</p>
<p>Agreed. Summers' comments on females was especially blown out of proportion. I hear all the time people talking about "girls are better at thinking abstractly" or "girls favor their left-side of the brain" (maybe it was the other way around, I don't really know)...but nobody jumps up and screams "SEXIST!" But it's really talking about the same thing: intrinsic differences between male and female brain structure.</p>
<p>And as the article says, he never insulted the intelligence of women.</p>