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human
What to do when an advisor tries to bully you on a manuscript on which you are first author?

My former advisor (I'm now a postdoc) and I are co-writing a paper on which I'm first author. The history on this is I stopped working with this person (switched advisors) because I did not respect her approach to research (lack of theory, and other questionable yet common practices in my field) and actually discovered some things that were down right unethical. I had already undertaken the project on which this manuscript is based and didn't want to drop it because that would make me look bad. In addition to the problems with her approach I find her writing really unclear and even grandiose at times. Somehow she has gotten away with writing in this way but it's embarrassing. I wrote a paper with her in the past that I can't even look at because I let her have too much leeway. So now things have finally come to a head. I'm at a point in my career where I refuse to be passive about things that will be under my name. I care a lot about this paper and I won't endorse something that doesn't make sense to me. Basically she has tried to insert content that I disagree with and find unclear and poorly reasoned. I have tried to be diplomatic and expressed what I don't like and asked for justification. Now she wants a phone call. In the passed she has used meetings to exercise dominance. I am not sure what to do. In the paper she even tried to subtly use a dominance approach by asking me to delete my paragraphs in favor of hers, which I find unacceptable. I'm not her underling and my name is first on this paper. I don't take orders like that. As collaborators, what ever we decide to include in the paper needs to be achieved through mutual agreement. There certainly are things I would allow if it met some standard, but I'm not going to just do what she says. What would you do? I'm specifically thinking about the phone conversation. I don't want to allow myself to be put on the spot on anything. Strategies? I can't show that this stresses me or any sign of weakness.
gpt
She's PI. Either give up authorship or let her do what she wants. When you're a PI, treat your students better than she did.

This current battle, as described, could easily turn into a pyrrhic victory.