I think the people who went from reasonable to indignant to screechy over some clown's shirt hurt their cause, since the shirt was certainly recognizable as a purposely somewhat tacky callback to a certainly tacky classic pulp pinup style, and the critics should have acknowledged that. On the other hand, where was the media fixer who probably should have handed this guy a uni sweatshirt to wear on the tee vee? That would have saved a boatload of nonsense on a day when the ESA was celebrating their comet mission.
Sorry to say, girls and boys, but in the big bad world of creativity--of which science is certainly a part--you are going to have to deal with much more problematic personalities than this Limey asshole and his fetish model shirt, so the next time some dipshit does something mildly questionable and wears a shirt you don't like the day something pretty major happens, for the love of christ keep your sense of proportion, keep your focus on the biggest picture, and don't go completely fucking apeshit over the fucking shirt at the expense of everything else. Pick your battles, interwebs feminist girls and boys, and win your war. There are plenty of assholes who deserve to be destroyed over their vile actions and beliefs, but this idiot isn't one of 'em. Thank you.
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