Question

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once commented, “Somehow it’s OK for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.” He was referring to the notion that it has become socially acceptable for people to say they are bad at math, but it is unacceptable to say they are bad at reading.

How do you respond to this? Should society think it is OK for people to say they are bad at math?