You are definitely one of the reasons I stick around. Plus, I get to feel less guilty about my style of argument when there's somebody around who argues a similar way.  :-)

I did weigh in on the Summers thing briefly. But it was only one comment. Frankly I agreed with your position on Summers' responsibility as an administrator, not an academic, to choose his words carefully.

But you shouldn't generalize about the reasons more women didn't jump in on this bandwagon.  For my part, I just think of academia as just another big business in this country. Sadly, I lost my respect for US academic institutions -- especailly the "elite" institutions -- long ago. They have, within the past 10 years or so, become nothing more than educational mills/money makers in the eyes of the deans and presidents. So this outrages me no more/no less than any other corporate outrage. And, frankly, I can't keep up with my corporate outrage!

I apologize for my feeling on this, but that's a whole different topic!