Mollie Hemingway says it’s time to fight back.
[Update a while later]
[Update late morning]
I think the shirt was a poor choice for the occasion, and that a lot of people overreacted to it, and then a lot of people overreacted to the overreaction. That’s what happens with Social Justice Warriors.
It’s fun to fight back with feminist bullies. They rely on the fact that men will use their code of politeness. When you are not polite, the deer in the headlights look cross their faces and they get flustered.
Another tactic is using a swagger. Works like a charm.
Sarah posted on shirtgate Saturday and actually lured a genuine SJW to show up in comments. Much entertainment ensued.
Her post is great, as are many of the comments.
The feminists really stepped in it this time. Tons and tons of women are supporting and defending him online.
G’day,
Personally I think the best way to fight back is to get one of those shirts. Have you seen the Galactic Gals one? Space chicks with ray guns, rockets and robots. Epic! An all girl sci fi movie on a shirt. I usually wear Hawaiian shirts to work on summer Friday mufti days, Got to get one.
Ralph
I want the shirt that has prints of wide-eyed Nancy Pelosi and scowling Kathleen Sebelius and “who me?” Lois Lerner?
Or how about a shirt with “beefcake” poses (Photoshopped, natch), of Professor Gruber, Vice President Biden, President Obama, and yes, Governor Romney, and oh, the bald IRS dude?
While I personally wouldn’t wear one of those shirts to my own cremation (I don’t do flashy), I think this whole matter is stupid. The man wore a shirt made for him by a friend of his. That friend is a woman. Say what you will about it being unprofessional for the workplace, the feminists proved once again to be humorless drones. The irony is that by being such bores, they’re undermining the very causes they claim to believe in. I believe the early proto-PC speak during the 1970s battle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment was harmed by their shrill cries to change words to “herstory”, “womyn”, etc. People started laughing at them to the point that it became difficult to take feminists seriously.
Hoyt: “the feminists say women are better”
Cambridge Dictionary: “Feminism: an organized effort to give women the same economic, social, and political rights as men”
I don’t understand why Hoyt disagrees with the dictionary on this one.
Maybe because many of the feminists don’t agree with the dictionary?
Feminism may have started out as being about gender equality, just as liberalism started out as being about liberty. Times have changed, Bob, although language perversion by the “liberal” Hive (and by “liberal” I mean of course “tax-happy, coercion-addicted, power-tripping State-fellator”) continues. If you’d like to visit those thrilling days of yesteryear–when liberals believed in liberty and feminists were actually interested in gender equality, I recommend:
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/ffs/
There are (at least) 2 kinds of feminist. To date. With world war G entering its final stages and world war T warming up in the green room, I doubt anyone can predict how many there will be a few years down the road. I mean, what kind of feminist would deny transsexuals their own rest rooms?
Personally I don’t think #shirtstorm has anything to do with the gender of the individuals on the shirt. Or their attire. Or their poses. It’s all about what they have in their hands.
If you think that feminists agree with the official definition, than you haven’t been on a university campus recently.
Or planet earth
Um, because Sarah Hoyt comes from Socialist Portugal and has life experience to see through glib definitions offered in a dictionary? Because Ms. Hoyt is a novelist and in practicing her tradecraft has a deeper understanding of the human condition? Uh, because Sarah Hoyt is smarter than . . . oh, never mind!
Jeez, Bob. Ever heard this one:
“Anything you can do, I can do better./ I can do anything better than you.”
It hasn’t been about equality in a looooooooong time, if it ever was.
Ha! Funny answer; great retort.
On the other hand, don’t forget what happened next:
I’m cool, brave, and daring to see a lion glaring
When I’m out with my Remington.
But a look from a mister will raise a fever blister
Oh you can’t get a man with a gun
The gals with umbrellas are always out with fellers
In the rain or the blazin sun
But a man never trifles with gals who carry rifles
Oh you can’t get a man with a gun.
“But a man never trifles with gals who carry rifles
Oh you can’t get a man with a gun.”
Totally not true as evidenced by the shirt in question 🙂
I thought the shirt was rather tasteless, but no more so than the creepy tattoos (which no one seems to have commented on).
The folks on the other side are quick to point out that the shirt was made by a woman — as if that has any bearing on its appropriateness. Both sides are trying to play the feminist card, IMO.
Matt Taylor was trying to gain “street cred” by showing how “edgy” he is — a strange choice for a scientific press conference. He went for shock value and was shocked that people were shocked, and now people are shocked that he is shocked — and this has blown up into a major story which has received far more attention than it’s worth.
+1 Because I agree with all of it. The only thing I would add is that the press conference apology was a waste of everyone’s time and only prolonged the nonsense.
“….and only prolonged the nonsense.”
This, in my estimation, is what is most damaging to society. You give these people a platform and they will run with it. Ignore them and ignore those demands of there’s which are stupid and they will wither on the vine.
It’ all about power and money and a platform gives both to them.
When I saw him on the webcast, I felt his attire was inappropriate and very unprofessional… And that was before I could tell what was on the shirt. All I could think was, “That shirt, those tats, that beard… And scientists wonder why non-scientists think they’re weird.”
But that is my own age and standards showing. I strongly suspect he felt he looked cool and hip and almost surely was astonished that his shirt was found offensive. Among young people his age, on a night out at the pub, neither his beard, nor his tats, nor his shirt would have likely drawn any criticism.
I feel sorry for him; in the nasty realm of academia, his career might really suffer for a moment of stupidity. In a sane world, his attire would have earned him a shake of the head from more conservative scientists, not the vitriol heaped upon him by the Left.
He could well be a fine guy, and just didn’t deserve the #shirtstorm that hit him in the face.
Maybe he was trying to show that not all science geeks walk around in lab coats, sporting pocket protectors and eyeglasses held together with tape.
Someday people might come to realize that they DO NOT have a god given right to not be offended.
In the first article, it was mentioned that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi apparently is under threat of being replaced as minority leader in the House. The Democrats have lost ground in the House of Representatives for the third election in a row, but she claims concerns about her leadership are solely due to her being a woman. Right.
It couldn’t hurt the Democrats to replace her with someone who is less insulting to the intelligence of the listener.
Looking at the record, I was wrong. The House of Representatives did improve a bit for the Democrats in the 2012 election. Still there were very sound losses in the 2010 and 2014 elections.
Meanwhile, those Valiant Self-Proclaimed Pretectors of women….:
“House Democrats are continuing to pick at Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to allow Rep. Tammy Duckworth — a double amputee Iraq War veteran whose pregnancy has made her unable to travel — to vote by proxy in leadership elections this week.
Pelosi and her allies have been saying since Nov. 13, when the issue first came up, that House Democratic Caucus rules prohibit proxy votes, and that allowing exceptions for the Illinois Democrat would create a slippery-slope scenario.
Members and aides are privately seething over what they see as Pelosi’s latest attempt to stack the deck against Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., who is running for ranking member on the Energy and Commerce Committee against Pelosi’s closest friend and fellow Californian, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo.
And many members are concerned about the optics of not allowing Duckworth a proxy vote when Democrats are supposed to be the party that fights for women. Democrats have tried to make electoral gains by touting the “When Women Succeed, America Succeeds” economic agenda.”
Evidently, only certain Democrat women are allowed to succeed.
http://www3.blogs.rollcall.com/218/tammy-duckworth-nancy-pelosi-democrats/?dcz=
And I find her self-comparison to Mitch McConnell (who superficially had a similar track record during the 2006-2012 period) weak. The problem is that he shined during his period of being Senate Minority Leader, particularly in the resistance to the Democrats (in 2009 and 2010 when they had control of both branches of Congress), while simultaneously, she helped come up with that piece of garbage (and overall helped squandered a huge political opportunity during the same period of time).