I disagree that it’s possible to write what he did about general populations,
then walk it back to say “but of course it doesn’t apply at an individual level.”
A lot of people have used that argument in defense of what he wrote, as evidence
that the memo was not harmful or hostile to the women he worked with.
I strongly agree with this criticism and thought it was ridiculous that people even attempted to use this defense in the first place, so I'm glad it's being called out. When you are discussing statistical differences between populations as an explanation for certain behaviors, of course it is acknowledged by both sides that there are individuals that are outliers and that averages do not apply to every individual.
