As a self-confessed feminist, I'm pretty pissed at some anally retentive women ostracising the Rosetta scientist for his 'colourful' fashion t-shirt pattern showing an anime design. Equality and treating men and women the same is an important thing to me, and double standards really hack me off. These are the points I would like to make after careful consideration.
1. Fashion is a form of artistic expression. A designer friend (aka an artist) created this shirt for him. Art has always used both male AND female form in work and I can't see how a shirt designed with fashion in mind has caused such an uproar.
2. So far as kicking off about being an object of sexual desire, the female gender are potentially currently some of the worst for double standards. Women are unhappy being objects of desire by men however it's accepted that we can have a centrefold 'torso of the week' in a popular celebrity gossip magazine... Where the male is wearing less than the ladies featured on this poor scientists shirt.
3. Generally speaking, (and I am generalising here) anime and computer game characters and design tend to be very popular amongst the more (for want of a much better word here) 'geeky' types. This guy clearly enjoys the anime theme, and his shirt celebrates this.
4. He landed a freaking probe on an asteroid fgs, give him a break! Most people can't even parallel park and he's just accomplished this...
My main message is... might be a good idea to pull that pole out of the bottom extreme feminists, things work both ways, it's not one rule for one and another for the rest... It's giving feminism a really bad name. There's an awful lot going on at the moment (Gamergate etc) that is causing controversy and true champions of equality need to step up and separate themselves from this bigoted behaviour. Feminism is about equality, not kicking off at every tiny thing you deem 'unacceptable'. Meh. The guy could stroll about in a mankini for all I care :)
Thanks for reading until the end folks. Much love xxx
