Gender and Political Science

Last week, Dan Drezner wrote a light post about a recent study, which found that a man's brain will slow down, after talking to an attractive woman. He then discusses how this finding might explain behavior by world leaders. It was a humorous, Drezner-ish post, which I skimmed in Google Reader last week. Truly, my sexism alarm system did not go off when I read this post.

Laura Sjoberg at Duck of Minerva wasn't too happy about Dan's post. She thought he minimized the role of women in International Affairs. She didn't think it was funny. Dan replied

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