Well, now that Harvard President Larry Summers has finally released the transcript of his mildly incriminating comments, we can all point and laugh because apparently, this poor man is so clueless as to believe that his hypothesis on women in sciences would be made purely off the record and would only represent his personal views. Honestly, though. You can only play stupid so many times before your corporation either 1) catches on that you’ve been feigning ignorance to cover up your bad decision-making or 2) realises that you actually are incredibly stupid, and thus undeserving of the leadership role they’ve entrusted you with.

But on a positive note, more people are talking about inequality of opportunity because of this incident. So whether you think Summers was just oblivious to acceptable PR practices, or you believe that he was simply insensitive, we might have to agree that he did manage to do quite a job as a provocator for discussion. Although, for a place so close to the epicenter of this whole affair, I’ve heard surprisingly few opinions from the members of the MIT community. Is it that the whole campus population is numb to social discussion and controversy? Or is it perhaps because Larry Summers is an MIT alum (S.B. Economics 1975) and we don’t know whether to love him or hate him?