It is low class -- but hardly offensive.
And if Rachel thinks this is a "cool guy" then....no accounting for taste I guess.
Posted on 11/14/2014 4:46:14 PM PST by smokingfrog
Matt Taylor, who's a great scientist and seems to also be a pretty cool dude, gave a teary, heartfelt apology for his choice of attire on the day of Rosetta's probe landing.
"I made a big mistake, and I offended many people," Taylor said at Friday's media briefing, his voice trembling, "and I'm very sorry about this."
With that, the briefing moved onto the science (as it should -- Philae's days are numbered, and we want to find out as much as we can from the little probe that could). Taylor seemed to have trouble speaking for a few minutes, but perked up by the end. Many praised his apology on Twitter, and whether or not he was aware of that response, it seemed to have taken a weight off his shoulders.
Because none of the people calling out Taylor's attire wanted him blacklisted from science, or punished, or to run into a corner and cry. The coolest people in the world (like the ones who land probes on comets) should also be held to the highest standards -- they're the ones that the children of the world are watching for cues.
And for young women in the world, a shirt covered in hyper-sexualized women does not send a good message, conscious or otherwise.
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It is low class -- but hardly offensive.
And if Rachel thinks this is a "cool guy" then....no accounting for taste I guess.
Everything is sexist! Waaaahh!!!
I’ve ceased giving a damn what “most people” think since most people don’t think at all...
Amen
The responses to this little whackjob are pretty funny.She is not garnering much support.I wonder why?
And for young women in the world, a shirt covered in hyper-sexualized women does not send a good message, conscious or otherwise.
What kind of message does having your body covered in disturbing tattoos send?
/johnny
It’s pathetic that with the great feats these scientists were accomplishing, some dumb idiots on Twitter have made a story out of a shirt.
Bread and circuses.
Try wearing that shirt to any industry R&D big corporate job.
I dare you.
But only if you wear a go pro so the rest of us can see you get in trouble with HR.
That he’s getting away with/gotten away with this in a government science job is hardly surprisng.
“Iron my shirt!”
And have any of these constantly offended people noticed what young girls wear these days???
Why don’t they pick on the Rapper’s, black or white? Eminem, a so called Rap Star, just released a song with lyrics saying he would like to beat the singer Lana Del Rey
“Like Ray Rice Did”. (!!!!!) This is what they should be protesting. Don’t pick on some scientist who was having the best day of his life until the FemNazi’s kicked the door in. And yet, many of these same girls don’t get why they are still single, or why no body acts like a gentleman.
Modern women won’t be satisfied until they’ve succeeded in turning every last male into a gelding.
Apologized in a “trembling voice”....what a pansy.
It wasn't really covered in scantily clad women.
It was covered in pictures of scantily clad women.
If he was a homo and the shirt was covered in pictures of scantily clad men the liberals would have been praising him.
But what is that crap all over his arms?
You’d have to pay me to wear a shirt like that. Not even for bowling.
It’s as bad as an 8-ball jacket.
I think that Washington Post writers, whether male or female, should be held to higher standards for the head shots that they use on their Twitter feeds.
Rachel Feltman needs to apologize to the world for the poor standard that she has set. Please, Rachel, there are women and children monitoring Twitter. Why on Earth would you subject them to such an awful photo?
Who the hell cares? He was part of the team that took 10 years to travel to a comet to land on it.
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