Monday, November 17, 2014

Women are more than welcome in science and technology, but I doubt that most scientists—male or female—welcome the arrival of these chronically-offended, humourless gender warriors."





#Shirtgate:





◼ Rosetta mission scientist criticized for wearing 'sexist' shirt - Mashable

◼ 5 Reasons “feminists” can’t complain about comet scientist’s “sexist” shirt - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
Yesterday, mankind achieved something seriously amazing: we landed a space probe on a comet millions of miles away from Earth. Unfortunately for the scientists involved in this momentous accomplishment, modern day “feminists” exist.

One of the scientists was wearing a shirt covered in sketches of of scantily clad women. Not actual photos of women, but sketched images of pin ups in skivvies. So this chick from The Atlantic does what “feminists” do when encountering the inane: she lost her damn mind. Naturally, this scientist’s wardrobe selection means women are not welcome to participate in scientific oriented fields…
◼ Gosh! How wickedly funny it was of a group of internet pranksters to whip up confected outrage over Dr Matt Taylor's harmless, if rather loud, shirt.
That's the Matt Taylor who just landed a spacecraft on a comet, by the way, in perhaps one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the decade.

...Christina Hoff Sommers, a feminist academic at the American Enterprise Institute, expresses the problem succinctly: "Feminist bloggers claimed that his shirt would make women feel unwelcome in [science, technology, engineering and maths]. What nonsense. No woman with a serious interest in astronomy would be deterred because she saw a tattooed guy in a risqué shirt."

"Feminism used to be about freedom and happiness. Lately it has entered an Orwellian Junior Anti-Sex League phase. Even the most mild sexual joke, song, or sexy lady T-shirt arouses the Twitter outrage warriors. Women are more than welcome in science and technology, but I doubt that most scientists—male or female—welcome the arrival of these chronically-offended, humourless gender warriors."

Feminism has a serious, perhaps even terminal, public relations problem at the moment. Most women don't want anything to do with it, because they know that the third-wave, intersectional brand of feminism currently in vogue is inextricable from angry, lesbianic man-hating.

These days, the one thing guaranteed to send a man running, and ensure you stay alone forever, getting porky and hoarding stray cats while learning to knit jumpers for grandchildren you'll never have, is announcing that you're a "feminist". At least, that's the popular perception and it's why so few women anywhere in public life want to be associated with that toxic label.






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