Probably more than most of us wanted to learn about the social/political gantlet as must be run ... if you want to mess with your gender. ie The 'reasons' you might give aren't guaranteed to get you a ticket to ride. But it's mainly re a book with n stories about scientists (some of them blasé about their own social interactions, *cough*) in various disciplines. Last paragraph,

Still, it’s an engrossing tale of what it’s like to try to do the right thing and then to be caught up in a tempest of controversy and recrimination with people you’d typically think of as your allies.

“Justice cannot be advanced,” Dreger writes, “by letting ‘truth’ be determined by political goals.” Dismayed by the atrophying of in-depth investigative journalism and the Internet’s viral petri dish of partisan rumor and misinformation, she found herself on a plane coming back from one investigation and musing on the role of scientists, historians and other researchers. “We scholars had to put the search for evidence before everything else,” she averred, “even when the evidence points to facts we did not want to see. The world needed that of us, to maintain — by our example, by our very existence — a world that would keep learning and questioning, that would remain free in thought, inquiry and word.”

aka: The Intarweb: increasing the chance for.. "communication" while attracting very many sorry characters you'd rather have missed.