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Or #shirtgate when idiot "journalist" (The Atlantic's Rose Eveleth) went ballistic over Philae ESA Project Scientist Matt Taylor's shirt.

Matt had a shirt on with women similar to WWII bomber girls, fully clothed in 1940s/1950s style corsets or as Rose Eveleth and her foaming at the mouth outraged Twitter followers say they are naked women.

Some people get outraged at nothing these days.

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I notice that you didn't even mention the many men who also complained about that shirt, to say nothing about attacking their professional competency.

Perhaps you should ask yourself why that is?

A lot of people conveniently ignore that the shirt was actually made by a female friend of his named Elly Prizeman. The situation all of a sudden becomes completely different when you factor in that fact.

Of course, it's easier to just heap in outrage.

I was aware of that but didn't mention it because it's not relevant to the question of whether that was a good wardrobe choice when representing you and your colleagues’ professional work for international media coverage.

Careful, you'll prove his point.

Most of the online criticism came her tweet about it going viral, or is that too simple of an explanation? You're right though, Chris Plante should share a bunch of that shame for his hyperbolic article, which also got shared everywhere and set the tone for discussion.

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