Matt Taylor, the scientist who this week helped to land mankind on a comet. And what do the fuckwits in the media and across the internet focus on? His shirt. His fucking shirt.
It depicted some harmless imagery of women in racey bondage gear holding guns. Big whooping shitting deal. When I see these same SJW's, feminazi tumblrinas, and the figureheads in the media that they collude with, making the same sort of big deal about the women's weekly magazines... THEN I'll start to give a shit about some geeky scientists clothing.
This whole anti-male sexuality thing has gone way too fucking far. The female form has been celebrated for MILLENNIA. Just because some humourless tosspots can't deal with it and get *cough*triggered*cough* by the simplest of things, doesn't mean that well respected people should have to apologize for their clothing.
Which is exactly what this guy has been bullied into doing.
You know what is stopping women from getting into science? OTHER WOMEN. It's fuck all to do with the men in those spaces.
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What the fuck are things coming to? Social media at it's worst, and a pox on the twisted individuals who whined.
It's just a shame he didn't stand up, and say, "You know what? I don't give a fuck WHAT anyone thinks about my shirt."
probably the women who complained are fat munters who are pissed off 'cos they don't look good in "racy bondage gear"
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
What would Barbarella say !!
Fuck the media and the bullshit they spew.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/ - one shirt story: the apology video. (edit to make it clear that's the one story)
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/ - no shirt story, had a browse through a couple of comet articles and nothing in the sidebars either.
http://www.theguardian.com/science - no shirt story, apology story is in related articles for main stories and one other article comes up, http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/14/rosetta-comet-genius-typical-absent-minded-scientist-sister his sister defending him. (Yes, that's the lefty liberal guardian)
NYT : don't seem to realise we've landed on a comet (bit of an exaggeration, but their coverage extends as far as interviewing an American academic on it).
So... if it exists it's a social media thing, I'm sure the best way to deal with that is ranting online.
Science is an increasingly public-facing job. There are positives and negatives to that, one of the negatives is you can suddenly find yourself very out front after quietly working away for years. If I anticipate being in front of a TV camera (and we get them around occasionally, though I've not been in shot so far) then I take a moment longer to think about what I'm wearing in the morning. Either he didn't or was going for quirky and seriously misjudged. Either way, feel very sorry for him, people don't deserve to be trolled online, but it happens and the 'just develop a thicker skin' response makes the problem worse over time.
...This whole anti-male sexuality thing has gone way too fucking far...
Digressing from the topic of the OP, slightly, but I agree with the above statement. A couple of weeks ago, our wonderful Feminist Society at uni instigated a referendum, which was: "should we ban 'lads mags' from the student union shop?" because they sexually depict men and women. The poll went ahead and gained a total of 714 votes, just over 10% of the university population. 383 students voted no whereas 331 voted yes. Irrespective of the low number, the referendum was regarded as a success. As a result, the feminist society got their way, and mags like Zoo and Nuts are no longer available to buy in the on-campus shop. In a earlier campaign of theirs, they also managed to have papers such as The Sun and The Star removed because of the dubious content on page 3.
Be fair. It was a fkkking awful shirt.
Doesn't mean someone should be slaughtered for wearing it, though.