A new post on ‘Shirtgate’ from Jerry Barnett at Sex & Censorship nails it (once again) —
For those with a love of science, the story of the week was, of course, the landing of a robot – launched 10 and a half years ago – on a faraway comet. As someone who is still amazed that I can instantly publish an article from a computer in London, that can then be read globally, I lack the words to express my jaw-dropped amazement at this latest accomplishment of mankind.
The mastermind of the mission was Dr Matt Taylor. Like many ultra-intelligent people, Taylor clearly possesses an offbeat personality and quirky outlook on life. Conformity is for the dull of mind. It was hardly unexpected then, that Taylor chose not to wear a grey suit and tie, but instead appeared at a press conference in a bright shirt made for him by an artist friend – a woman. The shirt featured cartoon images of scantily-clad women brandishing guns.
If Taylor had been paying more attention to politics over the past decade, he’d have witnessed the final stages in the collapse of the progressive left, and its replacement with a new set of intolerant, dogmatic, anti-sex, pro-censorship attitudes. But he clearly had more important things to worry about, so he’d missed the rise of a clique of online bullies using feminist language to achieve a very non-feminist goal: the suppression of the idea that women can be sexual beings if they so choose.
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Couldn’t agree more with the linked article. As a life-long progressive, I find the grim, censorious tone of much of what passes for leftism these days a complete betrayal of our ideals and utterly repugnant in its own right. Going after a scientist because of some pictures on his shirt? Are these people unaware that there are real problems in the world that might call for some attention? The effect of the anti-individual-rights turn in leftist politics is pretty obvious from last week’s election results and the general irrelevance of left-of-center views to political discourse in this country. Identity politics… Read more »
When I first read about this last week, I could not believe it… A shirt! Radical feminists were blaming his shirt as one of the reasons for a lack of women (wo-persons?) scientists… Ridiculious.
And to top it all of, he was then shamed/bullied into apologizing…