Scientists have always been perceived as serious minded weirdos that
don't have time for trivialities.
Now there is one scientist who has sparked up social media because of
his "controversial shirt".
According to CNN:
"While the world watched the historic landing of a space probe on a
comet 310 million miles from Earth, many were distracted by what was
happening closer to home.
Rosetta Project scientist Matt Taylor caused a firestorm with his
choice of fashion during the European Space Agency's live stream of
Wednesday's Philae landing. Taylor initially sported a shirt featuring
women in lingerie, possibly not the wisest choice of attire given all
of the discussion surrounding the challenges for women in the tech and
science fields.
"The fact that a scientist of any gender, but especially a man, would
think it's a good idea to wear a shirt covered in naked women while
representing a major space agency and a significant research project
is appalling; and clearly, he had no idea that he was engaging in
exactly the kind of casual sexism that drives women away from STEM,"
S.E. Smith wrote in an article on XOJane.
STEM is the acronym for science, technology, engineering and
mathematics, and women in those disciplines have long complained of
sexism and other difficulties in their male-dominated fields."
I honestly don't know what to think of the shirt.. He just happened to
be caught on camera, who knows what he wears on other days?
What do you think?
