When you have a hostile creep in the workplace the women in that workplace will have techniques they use to avoid the creep. This is because men do not believe those women when they say "this guy is a creep" and so no action gets taken against the creep. Or men do believe those women, but they decide not to do anything anyway.

Eventually the body of evidence is so huge people can't avoid taking action any longer.

We see this with Crosby, we see it with Epstein, we see it with Weinstein. Those people were monsters yet it took years for anything to happen.

RMS is clearly nothing at all like those men, but the denial of his abusive behaviours is the same.

There are other comments talking about how he has a phobia to plants so women grow them in their offices or wear clothing with plant imagery. This may or may not be true.

I prefer to think that Stallman finds this utterly hilarious and encourages the behavior.