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Internet steps up to defend Rosetta scientist
So the story is as follows:
Brit Scientist Matt Taylor is the chief of Science for the Rosetta space mission.
He wore a Hawaiin type kinda shirt (which had bikini clad women cartoon characters on it), for the media interviews, just as the Philae lander spacecraft was touching down on comet 67P following more than ten years in space.
Note: This is the first time a spacecraft is landing on a comet.
The shirt was custom made by Elly Prizeman, a friend of the scientist, who gave it to the scientist, a recent birthday present. Elly tweeted that the scientist wore the shirt as a gesture of gratitude to her.
This is the shirt.
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Suddenly, the feminist lurking all over the internet started their nagging and bitching.
https://twitter.com/roseveleth/status/532539812855959552
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https://twitter.com/roseveleth/status/532538957490561024/photo/1
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https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/532509765989965824
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Eventually the poor scientist was forced to apologize and did it with tears in his eyes.
Then the internets saw this, and arose against this injustice.
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https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/535498857611014144
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https://twitter.com/_icze4r/status/533757434590806016
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https://twitter.com/LibertyNerd/status/533695924414185472
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https://twitter.com/ComplaymentdO/status/536224231223095297
Stand United. Fight Feminazis. Save Mankind.
Material in quotes Sourced from: #Shirtstorm backlash: Internet steps up to defend Rosetta scientist — RT News
So the story is as follows:
Brit Scientist Matt Taylor is the chief of Science for the Rosetta space mission.
He wore a Hawaiin type kinda shirt (which had bikini clad women cartoon characters on it), for the media interviews, just as the Philae lander spacecraft was touching down on comet 67P following more than ten years in space.
Note: This is the first time a spacecraft is landing on a comet.
The shirt was custom made by Elly Prizeman, a friend of the scientist, who gave it to the scientist, a recent birthday present. Elly tweeted that the scientist wore the shirt as a gesture of gratitude to her.
This is the shirt.
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Suddenly, the feminist lurking all over the internet started their nagging and bitching.
[TWEET]532539812855959552[/TWEET]Yet, on Twitter the achievement was quickly overshadowed. The most prominent early critics were astrophysicist Katie Mack and The Atlantic's science writer Rose Eveleth.
https://twitter.com/roseveleth/status/532539812855959552
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https://twitter.com/roseveleth/status/532538957490561024/photo/1
[TWEET]532509765989965824[/TWEET]
https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/532509765989965824
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Eventually the poor scientist was forced to apologize and did it with tears in his eyes.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------But, as news outlets, including the Verge (headline and lede: I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing (that's one small step for man, three steps back for humankind) picked up the subject and published editorials against the shirt, Taylor apologized.
Then the internets saw this, and arose against this injustice.
[TWEET]535498857611014144[/TWEET]
https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/535498857611014144
A group of sympathisers set up a fundraising campaign to award a gift to Matt Taylor and his team (though the Rosetta scientist said he couldn't accept.) A petition in his support also gathered over 10,000 votes.
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https://twitter.com/_icze4r/status/533757434590806016
[TWEET]533695924414185472[/TWEET]
https://twitter.com/LibertyNerd/status/533695924414185472
[TWEET]536224231223095297[/TWEET]
https://twitter.com/ComplaymentdO/status/536224231223095297
Stand United. Fight Feminazis. Save Mankind.
Material in quotes Sourced from: #Shirtstorm backlash: Internet steps up to defend Rosetta scientist — RT News
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