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Rachel Haywire, Twitter concerning shirtgate.
One of the replies there is,
Reminds me of Twain's comparison of the two Reigns of Terror.
Edit: Not to mention that we didn't lose Matt Taylor. He still has the same job as a scientist with the ESA.
This seems to silently assume that women are not geekshamed.
Otherwise the proper comparison would be "more women driven from phys by harassment than both men and women by geekshaming", if we want to argue that geekshaming is not a problem. We should not automatically assume that focusing public attention on a scientist's shirt instead of their scientific results will have zero impact on geek women.
In other words, the original quote is, simply, a lie. Perhaps the "rationality" aspect is to remind people of all affiliations how readily people will lie for politics?
I honestly don't understand whether this is criticising Matt Taylor or criticising Taylor's critics.
Seems utterly foolish either way. Matt Taylor made a mistake, he apologized, I forgot his name and am only going by the evidence of your comment. We didn't "lose" anyone.
I would argue that was his actual mistake, i.e., apologizing when he did nothing wrong.
I agree. I only know the name 'cause I clicked through the links. Like, okay, maybe the ESA should hire someone who will say "don't wear that shirt over in front of the cameras to give the interview." But it really isn't a big deal