Related:

1. most people want to socialize with the opposite sex, and are unhappy (and hence unproductive) if they can’t;
2. the conscious reasons for wanting to socialize with the opposite sex often have nothing to do with “fluid exchange” (to use the John Nash character’s phrase from A Beautiful Mind),
3. let he (or she) who is without subconscious Darwinian motivations cast the first stone,
4. human beings didn’t evolve to live their lives in an 85%-male environment,
5. by the Pigeonhole Principle, not every straight male will be as lucky as I was to find a girlfriend in the remaining 15%, and
6. computer science departments could attract and retain better people of both sexes if they felt less like monasteries or pirate ships.

-- Scott Aaronson