Rosetta Project "scandal"

its just a shirt who gives a sheet no matter what anyone does wears do etc there will always be haters.

another useless "scandal".
There's bigger problems in this world, such as poverty, hunger, ebola, global warming and other serious problems.
come on humans, are we already evolved to something stupid?

Guy is a science hero, has (contributed to) doing something never achieved before by humankind, and he's been at it for a fairly long time. Probably working with other (nerdy?) guys in laboratories where little room is given to PR, etiquette and formalities. They're pretty busy working on some serious stuff, aren't they? That kind of things that tomorrow will turn into the technologies we so badly need to post those geo-tagged happy-faced auto-focused auto-uploaded-on-instagram selfies and the likes...

Sexism is a real issue and needs to be properly addressed, but taking it on this guy for a poorly chosen shirt shows hypocrisy (there's much worse out there you can fight against), inability to put things in perspective (he's a scientist, not on telly every day posing as a role model, nor backed by a team of pr advisors) and a generally miserable spirit (it's his moment of glory, he's probably the happiest he'll ever be and proud of what he achieved, no need to point your judgemental finger at a detail and ruin everything)

Matt Taylor apologising and crying over a shirt was a sad failure for humanity, nothing will give him back the chance to simply enjoy his wonderful achievement

For fucks sake, I was better off not looking this up. <.<

Sooooo, "sexism" is now like what I've come to believe is "racism" in the US. The (stupid/manipulative portion of the) "offended minority" can do whatever the fuck they want but if their "dominant oppressors" say or do something that accidentally offends them, they'll bite their heads off! And a collection of stupid people will agree because they can't tell the difference between sexism and bad taste in shirts (I'm one to talk- pretty sure the fact that I wear only black and dark colored clothing would offend someone somewhere and they'll make a fuzz about it if I went on TV). Fuck the world, fuck humanity and fuck stupidity! There goes my mood for today... :/

i thought it was about this thing http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta, with all it's problems which cost billions, now that is a scandal.

Who gives a f**k, it's a damn shirt.

SJWs need to shut the fuck up about their non-existent oppression.

Didn't his girlfriend make it for him?

Classic fauxminism; this is the bullshit that allows otherwise sane people to be deceived by misogynists into believing all feminists are as clueless as the ones who "took a stand" against this guy for wearing what is a tacky, terrible, and really ugly shirt imo. Just wearing such a thing doesn't make him sexist. It does make him fashionably unhip though, which is a grave crime against science for which he shall receive no less than 5 lashes. And then give him the Nobel Prize for Physics.

You people are spending too much time giving attention to this! Likewise giving shooters attention instead of the victims! These people ruined that scientist's greatest day of his life. And even more importantly, you're all arguing about whether or not this is an issue. It is not! Why are you letting something like this overshadow an absolute historical moment! Are you all goddamn insane?! Go marvel at what these incredible people did, not gawk at some frakking shirt. People talking and arguing about a shirt when we achieved something incredible in our scientific progress absolutely disgust me. They're a disgrace to mankind. Period.

Hardly a scandal. It's just the media blowing it out of proportion like always

I don't know if it's the ridiculous proportion of vocal "SJWs" compared to normal people with sense or just the places I seem to end up, but the amount of stupendous thought policing, hypocrisy, lying, bigotry, misrepresentation, overstating of downright stupid events, white-knighting, doublethink, lack of self awareness, refusal to acknowledge facts or other's opinions, actual bullying and harassment coming from these so-called paragons of justice, and in some cases, people with audiences such as journalists or academics, is actually affecting my outlook on the world. Absolutely baffling.

Anyone that's offended by a shirt needs to grow the fuck up.

I say we all buy that exact same shirt and wear it out in public to piss off all the overly sensitive dumbasses whining about this.

all he wanted to do is share his excitement and happiness with the world for his and his team's accomplishment, and they bash him for his goddamn shirt, and made him cry and apologize about it. this is one of the most saddening things i`ve heard in my life.

I had to Google this because the only thing I knew about landing on a comet... was we landed on a comet, which I assumed was the important bit.

"not sure whether they can be friends with someone (me) who agrees with what he did."

That made it sound like I was in for something juicy... but it's a shirt. A shirt. And that pretty much sums up my thoughts. Actually, I like the artwork on it, and the only reason I personally wouldn't own it is it's too loud (as in colorful, too much going on) and I like dark colors. I fail to see the offensiveness in it, and hell, in school (where we had dress codes enforced) I used to frequently wear a shirt with a woman in a bikini taking up half the front. No one cared; even the teachers didn't find it inappropriate or potentially life-scarring. They all thought it was... gasp... a shirt.

And this is the part where I have to announce I'm female so someone, somewhere doesn't shit themselves because I dared condone wearing clothes featuring scantily clad women.

ffs, internet.

Honestly every single discussion about sexism/feminism/equality/gender/race/politics on the internet turns into an us vs them flame war full of vitrol and bile. While I am left leaning and believe in equality, I think most discussions end up being unproductive because it becomes an emotional argument of who can shout down the other and feel morally and intellectually smug. The shirt was disrespectful, just because people could be focusing on other more worthy things doesn't invalidate the fact that he shouldn't have worn the shirt. This is hardly a scandal, its just a bad choice made publicly. He should have apologized, but hounding him degrades the credibility of whoever is doing it. Honestly both sides need to mellow out.

This is the same issue we are having with gamersgate. Something bad got blown out of proportion (and it later turned out to not even be true), both sides felt personally attacked and now its on national TV because one side is sending death threats.

Feminism is some weird kind of boogy/straw man like organized religion or socialism is for some people. They all have a large spectrum of views/beliefs, but people just like to attack the other and pick the easiest to attack parts rather than the parts that represent the average views of that group. Whenever I see stuff like this it just makes me angry, because I know this is a source of many of the worlds problems. Be willing to look at both sides, not be judgmental and accept that identifying as something (be it hipster, feminist or republican) does not mean you have to agree with or practice all parts of it.

I think this "scandal" only gives fuel to all the raging anti-feminists out there as it belittles what feminism stands for.

I'm interested whether a woman wearing a shirt with muscular nude-chested guys would be bashed the same way actually? Are there any examples? Because otherwise those are pictures of attractive scantily clad women. And that is all - nothing more, nothing less. How is that conveying any attitude of anybody to anything is beyond me. Yes there are beautiful women out there, yes they also sometimes take off clothes.
Another question is how (in)appropriate it is to make public statements in such clothes "in general", but again that would concern any nudity - male or female and this is rather about decency/morals than an attitude of one sex to another.

People are dying right now and people focus on this shit, fuck off prudes.

http://i.imgur.com/rkx3nB5.png

The shirt might have been a questionable choice but this is one gross overreaction. Then again this is the age of Tumblr/SJW/Neo Femnazism and the naturally occuring and equally toxic counterforce as neo anti-feminism.

Why would you want to be friends with manipulative SJW's anyway? ;)

Breaking news: the shirt is SOLD OUT.

...ops, I got ninja'ed... by 3 hours.