I probably missed the whole point, but where does the sexism aspect occur in all of this? This is an argument where by chance a man and a woman are involved. This time a man is in a "theoretically" higher position(working as editor for nature) than the woman. Does this fact alone determine him to be sexist?
I realize he "outed" her and I see by her post that she is not handling that herself too well. In my eyes both of these people can learn a lot about professionalism.
It's a years-long story; the crux of it is that the blogger Dr. Isis had been boycotting Nature for publishing "Womanspace," a short fiction piece about women and shopping, in 2011, as well as a more recent letter by some random non-scientist guy from Texas saying it's not surprising that women don't get published in Nature because they're just not that good. That's where the sexism thing originally comes in, not the current events per se.
There is some discussion of the fact that this senior editor at Nature is outing an early-career scientist, and maybe the fact that he feels free to do so is a sign of sexism ("she" might be easier to take down than a "he"). Draw your own conclusions on that one.
Well, he seems to be lashing out after having been criticized within a longer, ongoing discussion about sexism. So the sexism was already there before this recent development.
I realize he "outed" her and I see by her post that she is not handling that herself too well. In my eyes both of these people can learn a lot about professionalism.