Insanity: "I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist"

smash · 14-11-2014 08:33PM

I hope the scientist that cures cancer gives his first interview wearing a tshirt covered in interracial porn. Somehow I don't thing the headline "Yea, you cured cancer! But I'm offended!" Would be given any server space.

RobYourBuilder · 14-11-2014 08:39PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Better yet if the woman who made it for him in the first place gets a few quid and recognition. That would be sweet.

She already has quite a few people enquiring about them on the twitter machine. There's a few bob to be made there, no doubt.

ScumLord · 14-11-2014 08:41PM

At this rate the feminists will have women wearing burqas so that no man or woman can ever appreciate the female form.

This just smacks of hatred of female beauty more than anything. What's wrong with appreciating the female form? He's shirt is no worse than the big boobed fertility statues from prehistoric human societies that idolised the role of women and the importance of reproduction.

uck51js9zml2yt · 14-11-2014 08:42PM

It's a bright shirt

smurgen · 14-11-2014 08:46PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

He should dress appropriately for his job, have a bit of decorum.

Did how he dress influence the outcome of the landing? No? Oh right so you post is just meaningless so.

Adamantium · 14-11-2014 08:49PM

smurgen wrote: »

Did how he dress influence the outcome of the landing? No? Oh right so you post is just meaningless so.

Those guys can wear whatever they want they achieved something unthinkable. The speed the comet is travelling at is incredible literally no calculation could be wrong.

He could be casually getting sucked off during the interview and I'd be A -OK with it.

Foxtrol · 14-11-2014 08:51PM

ScumLord wrote: »

At this rate the feminists will have women wearing burqas so that no man or woman can ever appreciate the female form.

This just smacks of hatred of female beauty more than anything. What's wrong with appreciating the female form? He's shirt is no worse than the big boobed fertility statues from prehistoric human societies that idolised the role of women and the importance of reproduction.

Did you not know that we've reached a point where only women can look at, comment on, or appreciate females?

ElvisChrist6 · 14-11-2014 08:55PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Aye, though I'm also asking WTF is he crying for? Crying FFS. And no this isn't some boys don't cry guff, but there's a time and a bloody place. Can you imagine Richard Feynman crying over similar? Or any of the Apollo lads and lasses. Eh nope. They wouldn't have dignified it with any response. It doesn't deserve one. Some moron writes like a moron, who gives a toss. He should have turned up in the shirt again, better yet get the whole team of men and women in similar shirts and say nada.

I think if he was on telly talking about something less important for him and it happened, he probably wouldn't have. But it was such a big deal for him and then he was dragged down by this. To go from such a high to be labelled this and that, that would be very upsetting only because the reason he was there was such a big thing for him.

Son Of A Vidic · 14-11-2014 08:57PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

NASA try too hard to be cool.

NASA doesn't need to try and be cool. NASA is cool.

Fr_Dougal · 14-11-2014 09:01PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Better yet if the woman who made it for him in the first place gets a few quid and recognition. That would be sweet.

I can see the shirt becoming a huge seller, just to spite the numpty that made a big issue out of it.

tritium · 14-11-2014 09:02PM

The day this moronic excuse for a journalist contributes even 0.001% of what this guy has just given to humanity is the day I will give a flying fcuk about any critical piece she wishes to write about that moment.

Cookie_Monster · 14-11-2014 09:03PM

what if they had landed a load of sexy ladies on the comet while wearing shirts depicting HAL and Jonny5?

Timberrrrrrrr · 14-11-2014 09:07PM

Foxtrol wrote: »

Did you not know that we've reached a point where only women can look at, comment on, or appreciate females?

Yeah

Cos women only ever say nice things about other women.

Adamantium · 14-11-2014 09:08PM

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

NASA doesn't need to try and be cool. NASA is cool.

This is from an old post of mine but:

They certainly are/were. I always think of Apollo 13 in this respect.

After the explosion of Apollo 13 they used the LEM and its engines to course correct on the return to Earth, something which it was never even designed for simulated or, all without the use of computers and electronics, using the stars and Earth as references like old tall ship sailors (they couldn't afford to use the extra amps so they had to turn almost everything off).

Ok that's its more human ingenuity than actual invention, but by all odds they should have died and to think they would still be floating in space

During the crisis in 1970, A NASA engineer thought up the idea by himself on his drive to work one morning of using the onboard suits, materials,duck tape, plastic bags to build the device that would convert the astronauts poisonous CO2 back to oxygen to prevent suffocation.

Ron Howard thought what actually happened was too unrealistic and out there for audiences to believe, so they went with this scene in the film were a group of engineers build it together.

NASA was so badass back in the day, that it beat Hollywood at its own game for real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2YZnTL596Q

ScumLord · 14-11-2014 09:08PM

Foxtrol wrote: »

Did you not know that we've reached a point where only women can look at, comment on, or appreciate females?

I think it's gone beyond that point. Even a woman would have a hard time appreciating the female form if it's hidden from public view and has nothing but scorn thrown at it if it's ever in the public eye.

Holsten · 14-11-2014 09:15PM

Good question is where can one purchase this shirt?

smurgen · 14-11-2014 09:15PM

Adamantium wrote: »

Those guys can wear whatever they want they achieved something unthinkable. The speed the comet is travelling at is incredible literally no calculation could be wrong.

He could be casually getting sucked off during the interview and I'd be A -OK with it.

I wasn't following the project to be honest with you. Heard about it years back and I thought the landing was another few years off still.that said I've been reading up on it a lot since they done it and I'm totally blown away by what they're after achieving so far, never mind what their testsay uncover. The distances and speed involved are mind boggling and I think the ESA deserve massive respect for this, they've been in NASA's shadow for so long and now they've pulled off a landing that in terms of difficulty matches anything NASA has done in my opinion.

The reaction of this woman disgusts me.she should stick to talking about things like Kim Kardashians arse crack and other insignificant matters and stop externalizing her own problems with the opposite sex on society as a whole. Most of these people need psychologists not blogs .

oppenheimer1 · 14-11-2014 09:15PM

The second I saw the flamboyant number he was sporting I knew he would be in for a barrage of negative criticism from the internet - given the way the internet is at the moment it was a brave choice Its a true shame as the shirt wasn't even offensive and has possibly ruined his memory of what would have been the greatest day of his professional career.

Its truly maddening that when this team has genuinely achieved something which has advanced humanity all we can talk about is the attire of one of the scientists.

Some of the criticism emanating from the states I think is also down to the fact that it wasn't an american programme that achieved this.

Potatoeman · 14-11-2014 09:16PM

dudara wrote: »

If I was him, I would have actively sought out a more lurid and extreme shirt. Really give them something to complain about.

Like this:

http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/thousands-of-my-potential-children-died-on-your-daughters-face-last-night/

The_Valeyard · 14-11-2014 09:18PM

2014 will be remembered as the year of feminism I'd say.

hatrickpatrick · 14-11-2014 09:21PM

Can't be arsed getting embroiled in another sexism debate on AH, but people need to learn that sexual is not the same as sexist. IE just because something is related to sex, doesn't make it sexist - that whole Adria Richards debacle is a good example, a joke about sex is not automatically a sexist joke.

This is EXACTLY the kind of anti free speech crap which I accuse feminism of on a regular basis.

smash · 14-11-2014 09:23PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

2014 will be remembered as the year of feminism I'd say.

More like the year radical feminists made a complete mockery of feminism.

steddyeddy · 14-11-2014 09:28PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

A suit and tie perhaps, something appropriate for television, what's wrong with turning out well and looking professional.

As a CEO of Pfizer once said "managing scientists is like herding cats". Scientists are trained to think creatively and operate best when they have complete freedom to be who they want to be.

Alun · 14-11-2014 09:32PM

I worked at ESOC for a few years back in the 80's and even then you'd be hard pushed to see more than one or two suits. I certainly didn't wear one!

I felt really sorry for Matt on that video, totally unnecessary.

moc moc a moc · 14-11-2014 09:33PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

He should dress appropriately for his job, have a bit of decorum.

He's not working as a funeral director, he's a member of the first team in human history to successfully land a probe on a comet and probably one of the smartest people on the planet. He gets to decide what kind of dress is appropriate for his job.

eviltwin · 14-11-2014 09:37PM

As a woman I don't see anything wrong with his shirt at all so please remember in your "all feminists are crazy" hysteria that not ALL women are offended by it.

nxbyveromdwjpg · 14-11-2014 09:42PM

I like the shirt

SeanW · 14-11-2014 09:44PM

Wibbs wrote: »

FYP RyB. Morons shouldn't be given a second thought ever. You may as well regard the gibbering of monkeys as valid. And that number of morons pales into the insignificance they are when ranged against the millions who see their guff as beyond idiotic.

The problem is that the "monkeys" as you call them, is that - as this incident proves - they do indeed have power and influence.

People like these are not just on the Internet, they are high up in academia, in legislatures, media and they have a lot of influence. People like this have succeeded in having large scale changes in legislation favour their agenda, and to a certain extent control Western culture.

The fact that what was supposed to be a highlight of this mans' life has been turned into such a nightmare is a testament to the power of the Feminist-Left, which is supported by virtually every left-wing entity in the known world. A sad, but entirely predictable result.

El Guapo! · 14-11-2014 09:44PM

eviltwin wrote: »

As a woman I don't see anything wrong with his shirt at all so please remember in your "all feminists are crazy" hysteria that not ALL women are offended by it.

Nobody said that. Please don't turn this thread into that debate again.

rozeboosje · 14-11-2014 09:45PM

Yes indeed, the shirt was in bad taste. Having said that,

ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG WE LANDED A CRAFT ON A COMET!!!!!!!!!!!! yay science!

Insanity: "I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist"

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